Okay this man is obviously one of the smartest people in the entire world if not... the smartest astrophysicist to date
Oh, give me a break. He doesn't hold a candle to Einstein, and there are smarter people in the world than him (Roger Penrose springs to mind). Yes, he's smarter than me, but he's more of a media darling than a super-genius, and he'd be the first to admit it.
Offtopic for a second - why the hell hasn't someone written a text-to-speech implementation that sounds even remotely human? How hard is this problem, really? Obviously harder than I think, anyone care to explain what the big deal is? I mean, you're dealing with a finite number of sounds, and even allowing for tonal differences, there's a large number of combinations, but not that large, surely?
So you're afraid that people will save a bunch of movies, then transfer them from TiVo to their computers and eventually the Net. How possible is this?
It's an incredibly difficult task. It's one thing to record what you see onto the TiVo drive, but the format on that drive and how you get access to that drive is totally proprietary to us. It would be very difficult for somebody to actually hack into that. And as far as we know, no one is doing that today.
Security through obscurity... Yeah, that'll work. NOT!
Someone must have thought of this before, but how easy would it be to make one yourself? A capture card, a large hard disk, a cheap processor... Sure, it'd cost more than US$399, but then you'd be calling the shots. That's gotta be worth it.
All I meant was, if there is an incompatibility between the NASM licence and the GPL, then changing the licence to GPL would (obviously) remove the incompatibility.
No, I'm not as well versed as you are in these matters, Russ. Thanks for answering my questions though.
But why would the authors want to keep the NASM licence? The GPL seems to meet the spirit of what they're trying to achieve with the NASM licence, without (obviously) this incompatibility...
Nelson says: The only solution I can foresee solving this problem is for the original authors to grant us a license change to the GPL. Since this is unlikely to happen,
Sorry, maybe I'm being naive here, but why the hell not? What does the NASM have over the GPL one that makes it so attractive?
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From the release: Additionally, we have demonstrated the capability to selectively deny GPS signals on a regional basis when our national security is threatened.
I do understand, and the link is relevant. Let me point it out:
The probability that two photon pairs are emitted from our down conversion source within the coherence time of the photons is negligibly small. Taken a gross production rate of around 8*10^5 1/s and a coherence time of 1*10^-12 s, the probability for the emission of two pairs within this coherence time is 10^-12*8*10^5 s*1/s = 8*10^-7. This probability is very low and justifies the neglecting of such events.
This applies just as well for the MITM attack as the beam splitter attack. Mallory (or Eve, as I think the ususal example is named), has to communicate with both parties at the same time in order to correctly mimic Bob to Alice, and Alice to Bob. Eve has to take all incoming data, read it, and re-send it (possibly altered) to the intended recipient.
Remember, Eve can't read the data without collapsing the probability states of the entangled photons, so she has to re-generate the data. She can't do this fast enough to accurately mimic the data she originally received.
And, of course, it does nothing about the man-in-the-middle attack. Yes, it does. The man-in-the-middle can't re-generate the signal fast enough. Have a look at this for more detail.
Why can't I own a domain name? Why do I have to lease one from a registrar? If I can provide all the hardware and software necessary to host and DNS a domain, what am I paying a registrar for?
Sad... Y'know, I just bet this'll be moderated as 'Troll'. It really doesn't deserve troll status. Here's a couple of tips:
1. Don't be so fscking obvious. This is about 0.0001% more talented than 'Linux sux'. 2. Adding 'Thank you' to the end of trolls works for grits boy. Don't try and rip it off, it's pathetic.
Hey, Rob, why isn't there a 'stupid' moderation option?
Using captioning to filter tv is such a broken idea it's not funny. $150 for that? Shit, the parts probably cost about five bucks. Carl's idea was much better. Real-time analysis and interpretation of the video or audio signal. That's _real_ filtering.
Then, choose a representative set of inputs to exercise the binary and run it using the "translator."
There's your problem right there. As a previous poster mentioned, for extremely dynamic systems, picking representative data is difficult, maybe even impossible.
That's not to say this isn't cool tech though. I'd love to see this implemented on x86, just to see what's possible.
I liked the Snow Crash version better. Tranmitting a virus into your head via visual input causes your brain to coredump... Ouch!
Seriously, what's possible in this area? I remember reading about patterns of black and white lines that cause headaches in some people, anyone have links on those?
Have you ever seen FOX in the US? It seems like The Running Man can only be a few months away.
This network has to be epitome of lowest-common-denominator TV. I [semi-]recently saw Robbie Knievel jumping over the grand canyon (well, a small part of it) on a motorcycle.
Fox made a 1-hour special out of this 15-second event, complete with 'simulations' of what 'could go wrong'. They even had a motorbike, with a dummy dressed up like Robbie strapped on it, which they pushed over the canyon wall to show what might happen if the worst came to the worst. They filmed every bounce on the way down, and screened it in slow-motion, so you didn't miss a trick.
We do have them to thank, however for 'The Simpsons' and 'The X-Files'. Ah, the internal struggles my mind has reconciling great shows like these with 'When Good Pets Go Bad 2'.
Ah, hell with it. As long as there is a market for this sort of crap, people will make it / market it. I'm sure 'Climbing for Dollars' or 'Treadmill to Bucks' (only chronic heart or respiratory illness patients accepted) would be ratings winners too.
The challenge will be to get it past the network execs and censors, but with the continuing downward slide of TV standards and ethics, it can only be a matter of time...:(
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Okay this man is obviously one of the smartest people in the entire world if not ... the smartest astrophysicist to date
Oh, give me a break. He doesn't hold a candle to Einstein, and there are smarter people in the world than him (Roger Penrose springs to mind). Yes, he's smarter than me, but he's more of a media darling than a super-genius, and he'd be the first to admit it.
Offtopic for a second - why the hell hasn't someone written a text-to-speech implementation that sounds even remotely human? How hard is this problem, really? Obviously harder than I think, anyone care to explain what the big deal is? I mean, you're dealing with a finite number of sounds, and even allowing for tonal differences, there's a large number of combinations, but not that large, surely?
It's a pro-linux site. For fuck's sake, what did you expect?
Slashdot has it's own biases, just like every other media source you ever saw/read.
You're an adult, cope.
From the article:
So you're afraid that people will save a bunch of movies, then transfer them from TiVo to their computers and eventually the Net. How possible is this?
It's an incredibly difficult task. It's one thing to record what you see onto the TiVo drive, but the format on that drive and how you get access to that drive is totally proprietary to us. It would be very difficult for somebody to actually hack into that. And as far as we know, no one is doing that today.
Security through obscurity... Yeah, that'll work. NOT!
Someone must have thought of this before, but how easy would it be to make one yourself? A capture card, a large hard disk, a cheap processor... Sure, it'd cost more than US$399, but then you'd be calling the shots. That's gotta be worth it.
Has anyone done anything on this?
All I meant was, if there is an incompatibility between the NASM licence and the GPL, then changing the licence to GPL would (obviously) remove the incompatibility.
No, I'm not as well versed as you are in these matters, Russ. Thanks for answering my questions though.
But why would the authors want to keep the NASM licence? The GPL seems to meet the spirit of what they're trying to achieve with the NASM licence, without (obviously) this incompatibility...
Nelson says:
The only solution I can foresee solving this problem is for the original authors to grant us a license change to the GPL. Since this is unlikely to happen,
Sorry, maybe I'm being naive here, but why the hell not? What does the NASM have over the GPL one that makes it so attractive?
He's a programmer.
type := A; := 1; := 1; := 2; := 2;
// etc...
PMyType = ^TMyType;
TMyType = record
Foo: Integer;
Bar: Integer;
end;
var
A, P: PMyType;
begin
GetMem(A, 10 * SizeOf(TMyType));
try
P
P^.Foo
P^.Bar
Inc(P);
P^.Foo
P^.Bar
finally
FreeMem(A);
end;
end;
The base type of the pointer determines how many bytes a call to Inc() will increase the pointer by.
Moron. You know it's the first post, regardless of the content. Therefore the content is redundant.
From the release: Additionally, we have demonstrated the capability to selectively deny GPS signals on a regional basis when our national security is threatened.
Anyone have any idea how they do this, exactly?
I do understand, and the link is relevant. Let me point it out:
The probability that two photon pairs are emitted from our down conversion source within the coherence time of the photons is negligibly small. Taken a gross production rate of around 8*10^5 1/s and a coherence time of 1*10^-12 s, the probability for the emission of two pairs within this coherence time is 10^-12*8*10^5 s*1/s = 8*10^-7. This probability is very low and justifies the neglecting of such events.
This applies just as well for the MITM attack as the beam splitter attack. Mallory (or Eve, as I think the ususal example is named), has to communicate with both parties at the same time in order to correctly mimic Bob to Alice, and Alice to Bob. Eve has to take all incoming data, read it, and re-send it (possibly altered) to the intended recipient.
Remember, Eve can't read the data without collapsing the probability states of the entangled photons, so she has to re-generate the data. She can't do this fast enough to accurately mimic the data she originally received.
And, of course, it does nothing about the man-in-the-middle attack.
Yes, it does. The man-in-the-middle can't re-generate the signal fast enough.
Have a look at this for more detail.
Why can't I own a domain name? Why do I have to lease one from a registrar? If I can provide all the hardware and software necessary to host and DNS a domain, what am I paying a registrar for?
Sad... Y'know, I just bet this'll be moderated as 'Troll'. It really doesn't deserve troll status. Here's a couple of tips:
1. Don't be so fscking obvious. This is about 0.0001% more talented than 'Linux sux'.
2. Adding 'Thank you' to the end of trolls works for grits boy. Don't try and rip it off, it's pathetic.
Hey, Rob, why isn't there a 'stupid' moderation option?
Using captioning to filter tv is such a broken idea it's not funny. $150 for that? Shit, the parts probably cost about five bucks. Carl's idea was much better. Real-time analysis and interpretation of the video or audio signal. That's _real_ filtering.
There's your problem right there. As a previous poster mentioned, for extremely dynamic systems, picking representative data is difficult, maybe even impossible.
That's not to say this isn't cool tech though. I'd love to see this implemented on x86, just to see what's possible.
I liked the Snow Crash version better. Tranmitting a virus into your head via visual input causes your brain to coredump... Ouch!
Seriously, what's possible in this area? I remember reading about patterns of black and white lines that cause headaches in some people, anyone have links on those?
How far could you take that concept?
Have you ever seen FOX in the US? It seems like The Running Man can only be a few months away.
:(
This network has to be epitome of lowest-common-denominator TV. I [semi-]recently saw Robbie Knievel jumping over the grand canyon (well, a small part of it) on a motorcycle.
Fox made a 1-hour special out of this 15-second event, complete with 'simulations' of what 'could go wrong'. They even had a motorbike, with a dummy dressed up like Robbie strapped on it, which they pushed over the canyon wall to show what might happen if the worst came to the worst. They filmed every bounce on the way down, and screened it in slow-motion, so you didn't miss a trick.
We do have them to thank, however for 'The Simpsons' and 'The X-Files'. Ah, the internal struggles my mind has reconciling great shows like these with 'When Good Pets Go Bad 2'.
Ah, hell with it. As long as there is a market for this sort of crap, people will make it / market it. I'm sure 'Climbing for Dollars' or 'Treadmill to Bucks' (only chronic heart or respiratory illness patients accepted) would be ratings winners too.
The challenge will be to get it past the network execs and censors, but with the continuing downward slide of TV standards and ethics, it can only be a matter of time...