Buy 10 of those files. Decode through audio. Decode through frequency/fourier. Compare. Since watermarking must be inaudible or at least not perceptible, then it can be changed. Just re-encode the same with all different bit changed randomly either in the fourrier domain or in the real domain. It does not matter. You CANNOT hide something, to somebody with too much time on their hand which has 100% access to it, especially when they know it is there for them to find. It is even more stupider than to think it won't be found as to think software DRM can work. Such a scheme can only get the unaware caught. And once it is "cracked" or bypassed, then you are back to point zero, a few million $ less with a useless watermarking scheme, and some individual are a few dozen/hundred hour short, but get praised by millions.
I don#t condone piracy, but frankly if you think you can win that fight by watermarking then I have a bridge to sell you.
First let me say I don't share many of my contemporaneous peer fear of eating genetically modified foodstuff. But the genetic modification we do right now is NOWHERE near cross pollination or breeding. Or you seriously have to explain me how we insert human/pig/fish gene using only pollination in a specie where this gene is not present. Bottom line is You can't. So for the *side effect* you can't compare to pollination either. There is a lot of paranoia going on for gene splicing, but there are a few good point hinted by some study (allergy to component not usually there in the original Genus/specie, resistance to herbicide or others effect passed over to other plants in the wild etc...).
The bottom line is that I am against the genetic-splicing paranoia I see in Europe (even in my own family), but downright exaggerating and comparing splicing with pollination make you look like an "apologist". Splicing is not only faster and more precise but also to introduce gene compeltely alien to the genus which would NEVER EVER have come into the plant by breeding and pollination.
One of such example is CSI new york S04 E10 , where the guy stalking mac taylor, put a MP3 player with a program supposed to hi jack the control of a metro/subway traffic control. Supposedly the mp3 player HD overwrite the controller program and subvert it so that the power cannot be cut off and a subway ram into another at station 33 avenue (line 3). When I just saw that 5 minutes ago I was thinking totally irrealistic, especially the part where they visit a hacker web site and the title are "hack DVD 101" "hack SUBWAY 101". But thanks to slashdot I am put in my own place, and yes Dorothee, you can hack the subway. or at least some tramway. Now where is that yellow road to sane engineering again ?
In bar/restaurants you can freely drink from 18, between 16 and 18 you are allowed some type of drink if accompanied (I think liquor are not allowed, but beer is). Everything being forbidden under 16. But those are the law for PUBLIC consumption. I am not sure that for private consumption there are law at all.
At least not in the sense of true peer reviewed research. But on the other hand 1) this can be verified through other resource. Check your local library or other web site. 2) a wiki source is better than no source of info at all. Because at least you can contest that info , by providing a contrary source of info. Which then can start the discussion. In absence of contrary evidence, I would say the info wiki gave us was reliable.
It is well known that before the ad-campaign of mid 20th diamonds were not that much in "demand". Heck, it is well known that before the oversupply of the 19th century diamond were relatively rare.
Look at wiki for more detail.
quoteThe De Beers diamond advertising campaign is acknowledged as one of the most successful and innovative campaigns in history. N. W. Ayer & Son, the advertising firm retained by De Beers in the mid-20th century, succeeded in reviving the American diamond market and opened up new markets, even in countries where no diamond tradition had existed before. N.W. Ayer's multifaceted marketing campaign included product placement, advertising the diamond itself rather than the De Beers brand, and building associations with celebrities and royalty. This coordinated campaign has lasted decades and continues today; it is perhaps best captured by the slogan "a diamond is forever".End Quote
Despite being in over surplus from mid 19th to mid 20th, diamond were not that popular and high in demand. in such context "And diamonds have always been in demand." the always is too much. If you change that to mid 20th century onward, you will be right.
Although I fully agree the GP amde a fallacy, you used a strawman : the confusion between "I believe in god" where belief=religious faith without evidence, and "I believe in science" as in "I am confident in science" as in "If I did the experience myself i could prove point by point the principle already discovered in the past, no matter my religious belief in god or not". The word believe here is not taken as "faith without evidence". Moderator, this was not an insightful jab at the troll, this is one of the oldest strawman argument used by religious faithful. Don#t fall for it. The troll was not hypocrite, he was using like most of us the word in the non religious sense. I believe/I think/I am confident that....
... There was a few month ago the first HD DVD and blue ray. For roughly a surface of 15*20 meters, the shop had a 1 single wall of 0,5 meter * 0,3 meter with both hd DVD and blue ray (5 or 6 can't remember, but i do remember thinking they not have taken the msot sucky film at that time). Today when i went to give back a DVD, there were 11 HD DVD on the same palce. For roughly a whole wall of 1 meter* 1 meter full of blu ray. I guess they did not present so MANY blu ray just to be nice and shiny. There are most probably more blu ray laoned than HD DVD. Mind you it is still clear their main loaning disk is the DVD : 7 or 8 walls for the whole length of the shop, + the extern wall of the shop itself are full of DVD.
I don't care for the HD DVD war out of many reason which were already cited (DRM, standard etc...). But in my mind, the war is decided, and if one of my friend absolutely want to buy one of the format, then I will recommend blu ray, jsut by the nubmer of blu ray one can loan.
"The whole concept of data ownership is flawed. You can't "own" data. You can have the government back you up when people do something with your data, but that's not "ownership." That's bullying."
ALL PROPERTY RIGHT are a form of "bullying" by the local government. THINK about it. If the local government was not bullying everybody in recognizing your own property right, including your home, your car, and your "life", then ANYBODY could steal/kill it from you at any moment, kick you out of your car/house and say "now it is mine because i am stronger than you (evil laugh)" and have no repercussion whatsoever. Which is why we have laws to recognize your rights to property and keep it. If there were not those laws, you would own NOTHING. And society would be anarchy. From the step of recognizing your right to own a physical things, to the step of your right to own easily copied bits, is only a small step. You can argue out of the blue that those are not "physical", but BOTH are right awarded (sorry , bullied as you say) by the government. Where to put the line on what procession/monopoly usage right the government should give or not give has been decided many many years ago when copyright laws were made (I am not arguying those are good laws, mind you). From the step of copyright law existing, to the step of arguying that your own data should be your "own", is very small. A step mind you which has been made years ago (15?20?) in the EU, where you have a right to check and correct any data that a firm or government has on you.
If it is in the US, I have no idea. But if it is in EU, there is this slightly interesting bit of data protection, which gives me a right of checking, correcting and deleting any personal data retained on their server. Meaning if I would leave such an european service for another , I can ask them to delete the data, and they HAVE to do it by law. Whatever the contract said, since the contract has to respect the european data protection law, and cannot nullify a law.
"could be accomplished by humans in a few hours." for 1000 time the resource price tag (dev. and money), and an infinity time the human life risk (rover human risk=0, and can be repeated, and nothing stop us sending 6 more rover. Or for the same price tag as the human mission, 600 more rover. Now your few hours don't look so good, aren't they ?). Human use food. Rover solar panel. Rover can stay weeks, month and apparently years. Furthermore , even if we can organize an expedition to mars (I am still doubtful on that) in many many years, the rover are there NOW. And I can easily imagine rover like vehicle surviving a few day, a few week, or at worst a few hours on the surface of other planetoid in our system. I can imagine that in MY lifetime. Not so for human, on say, europa, or even let us dream, pluto.
Since apparently this passport RFID will sped up passing through airport gate, you will have a better probability of only killing speedy american, whereas the rest of us will still be stuck for hours (for days) in security queues. Finally I knew having a paper passport and be forced to take the longest queue would someday be an advantage.
Since microsoft make format going obsolescent, it certainly point to it that people wanting to use electronic documentation for anything not ephemeral (aka: for years) need to be prepared to use an open document format (or simple text without formating). In other word decoupling the format from the software.
In 25 years you will still able to use an open ISO standard or convert from one standard to another. Microsoft jsut proved to you they are unreliable for the goal you had (forward compatibility).
Arrogance is to bar country the same sort of advance and wealth you enjoy right now, under the pretense that since they are far more, they will pollute more... Start by reducing your own carbon footprint, THEN you will be able to claim/request that other country meet the same standard. Until then the US as a whole has no right whatsoever to comment on what other country emit as carbon footprint.
Isn't this a classic definition of fascism ? I mean the government being a puppet of firm & corporation ? Because if I read that right, this more or less means the FBI suddenly become a special police specifically helping policing employee of corporation... I could be wrong on the definition, though...
That make it a factor 4 error on the accelration A calculation. (I had taken 480 kmh as average speed instead of 240).
Don't really matter. Red-meat-mash ex-driver is still dead as dead can be. even at 125g.
This is why I hate tv-sf.
Assuming constant acceleration A, speed increasing linearly A.t (speed=0 at t=0), meaning it reaches a distance X=A.t^2 (t=0 then x=0) transforming mile into furlong (sorry I meant meter) means at 12 foot it has roughly 4 meters, and a speed of roughly 300*1.6=480 km-1. Now I don't want to make complex calculation, so I will assume it will have over the 12 foot an average speed of (480+0)/2=240 km.h-1. Which is 130 meter.second -1 (we go for rough estimate). It will so take it roughly 0.03 second to make that distance of 4m with an average speed of 130 m.s-1. Since we know that X=4meter=A.T^2 and t=0.03 we get A=x/t^2=4225 meter.s-2. For reference g=9 m.s-2 so he will feel a force of 470 g roughly. Naturally I bet there are some errors in the above particularly how I calculate the time it takes.
The witcher is a long RPG, better than NWN 2+MoB IMHO, and full of choice. I would crown it in one of the top 3 RPG, if there was not this stupid flaw on saving (game autosave at each map transition at night, you can't turn autosave off, and saving seem to take quite a long time... Apparently they will release a patch to solve that). It is a game of gray, evil/good is not so obvious, and actually if you eliminate the fantasy part, some of the stuff sound "plausible" story wise (consistent and solid), and so it makes it immersing. Combat is also nice with the combo things, where you have different type of attacks (group/strong/light) with a sort of paper-scissor-stone system without being too repetitive. It is also quite long as RPG. Very good. I dunno if it is out for the US...
I mean, if I am joe-everybody, and got somehow a pda with wireless connection in a stadium or mobile phone+internet, how can they even hope to stop me writing post in a blog (or even a normal html web page) on the exciting match I am just watching ? I can't see anything copyrighted here (describing an event in writing) where they could even stops me, would not it ? Less even detect at which seating I am ?
Because they prefer the distortion induced which sound to them more "warm" "sweet" or whatever adjective they want to qualify it, in comparison to digital processing, which has different set of distortion. But in the very end, whether one is better than the other for an everyday use (aka : not 1kw amplification) is a question of what attribute you are looking at. And as far as I know, for convenience/portability and quality of sound reproduction in comparison to the original nothing beat digital (and that is not even counting the new vinyl which are saved from a digitally processed signal to start with...).
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Buy 10 of those files. Decode through audio. Decode through frequency/fourier. Compare. Since watermarking must be inaudible or at least not perceptible, then it can be changed. Just re-encode the same with all different bit changed randomly either in the fourrier domain or in the real domain. It does not matter. You CANNOT hide something, to somebody with too much time on their hand which has 100% access to it, especially when they know it is there for them to find. It is even more stupider than to think it won't be found as to think software DRM can work. Such a scheme can only get the unaware caught. And once it is "cracked" or bypassed, then you are back to point zero, a few million $ less with a useless watermarking scheme, and some individual are a few dozen/hundred hour short, but get praised by millions.
I don#t condone piracy, but frankly if you think you can win that fight by watermarking then I have a bridge to sell you.
First let me say I don't share many of my contemporaneous peer fear of eating genetically modified foodstuff. But the genetic modification we do right now is NOWHERE near cross pollination or breeding. Or you seriously have to explain me how we insert human/pig/fish gene using only pollination in a specie where this gene is not present. Bottom line is You can't. So for the *side effect* you can't compare to pollination either. There is a lot of paranoia going on for gene splicing, but there are a few good point hinted by some study (allergy to component not usually there in the original Genus/specie, resistance to herbicide or others effect passed over to other plants in the wild etc...).
The bottom line is that I am against the genetic-splicing paranoia I see in Europe (even in my own family), but downright exaggerating and comparing splicing with pollination make you look like an "apologist". Splicing is not only faster and more precise but also to introduce gene compeltely alien to the genus which would NEVER EVER have come into the plant by breeding and pollination.
One of such example is CSI new york S04 E10 , where the guy stalking mac taylor, put a MP3 player with a program supposed to hi jack the control of a metro/subway traffic control. Supposedly the mp3 player HD overwrite the controller program and subvert it so that the power cannot be cut off and a subway ram into another at station 33 avenue (line 3). When I just saw that 5 minutes ago I was thinking totally irrealistic, especially the part where they visit a hacker web site and the title are "hack DVD 101" "hack SUBWAY 101". But thanks to slashdot I am put in my own place, and yes Dorothee, you can hack the subway. or at least some tramway. Now where is that yellow road to sane engineering again ?
Because of all the security concern & security upgrade which would be needed to bring it up par to our own security standard.
In bar/restaurants you can freely drink from 18, between 16 and 18 you are allowed some type of drink if accompanied (I think liquor are not allowed, but beer is). Everything being forbidden under 16. But those are the law for PUBLIC consumption. I am not sure that for private consumption there are law at all.
But at least for now they provide us with cheap fun.
look it this domain is available on NSI !
At least not in the sense of true peer reviewed research. But on the other hand 1) this can be verified through other resource. Check your local library or other web site. 2) a wiki source is better than no source of info at all. Because at least you can contest that info , by providing a contrary source of info. Which then can start the discussion. In absence of contrary evidence, I would say the info wiki gave us was reliable.
It is well known that before the ad-campaign of mid 20th diamonds were not that much in "demand". Heck, it is well known that before the oversupply of the 19th century diamond were relatively rare. Look at wiki for more detail.
quote The De Beers diamond advertising campaign is acknowledged as one of the most successful and innovative campaigns in history. N. W. Ayer & Son, the advertising firm retained by De Beers in the mid-20th century, succeeded in reviving the American diamond market and opened up new markets, even in countries where no diamond tradition had existed before. N.W. Ayer's multifaceted marketing campaign included product placement, advertising the diamond itself rather than the De Beers brand, and building associations with celebrities and royalty. This coordinated campaign has lasted decades and continues today; it is perhaps best captured by the slogan "a diamond is forever". End Quote
Source wiki
Despite being in over surplus from mid 19th to mid 20th, diamond were not that popular and high in demand.
in such context "And diamonds have always been in demand." the always is too much. If you change that to mid 20th century onward, you will be right.
Although I fully agree the GP amde a fallacy, you used a strawman : the confusion between "I believe in god" where belief=religious faith without evidence, and "I believe in science" as in "I am confident in science" as in "If I did the experience myself i could prove point by point the principle already discovered in the past, no matter my religious belief in god or not". The word believe here is not taken as "faith without evidence". Moderator, this was not an insightful jab at the troll, this is one of the oldest strawman argument used by religious faithful. Don#t fall for it. The troll was not hypocrite, he was using like most of us the word in the non religious sense. I believe/I think/I am confident that....
... There was a few month ago the first HD DVD and blue ray. For roughly a surface of 15*20 meters, the shop had a 1 single wall of 0,5 meter * 0,3 meter with both hd DVD and blue ray (5 or 6 can't remember, but i do remember thinking they not have taken the msot sucky film at that time). Today when i went to give back a DVD, there were 11 HD DVD on the same palce. For roughly a whole wall of 1 meter* 1 meter full of blu ray. I guess they did not present so MANY blu ray just to be nice and shiny. There are most probably more blu ray laoned than HD DVD. Mind you it is still clear their main loaning disk is the DVD : 7 or 8 walls for the whole length of the shop, + the extern wall of the shop itself are full of DVD.
I don't care for the HD DVD war out of many reason which were already cited (DRM, standard etc...). But in my mind, the war is decided, and if one of my friend absolutely want to buy one of the format, then I will recommend blu ray, jsut by the nubmer of blu ray one can loan.
"The whole concept of data ownership is flawed. You can't "own" data. You can have the government back you up when people do something with your data, but that's not "ownership." That's bullying."
ALL PROPERTY RIGHT are a form of "bullying" by the local government. THINK about it. If the local government was not bullying everybody in recognizing your own property right, including your home, your car, and your "life", then ANYBODY could steal/kill it from you at any moment, kick you out of your car/house and say "now it is mine because i am stronger than you (evil laugh)" and have no repercussion whatsoever. Which is why we have laws to recognize your rights to property and keep it. If there were not those laws, you would own NOTHING. And society would be anarchy. From the step of recognizing your right to own a physical things, to the step of your right to own easily copied bits, is only a small step. You can argue out of the blue that those are not "physical", but BOTH are right awarded (sorry , bullied as you say) by the government. Where to put the line on what procession/monopoly usage right the government should give or not give has been decided many many years ago when copyright laws were made (I am not arguying those are good laws, mind you). From the step of copyright law existing, to the step of arguying that your own data should be your "own", is very small. A step mind you which has been made years ago (15?20?) in the EU, where you have a right to check and correct any data that a firm or government has on you.
If it is in the US, I have no idea. But if it is in EU, there is this slightly interesting bit of data protection, which gives me a right of checking, correcting and deleting any personal data retained on their server. Meaning if I would leave such an european service for another , I can ask them to delete the data, and they HAVE to do it by law. Whatever the contract said, since the contract has to respect the european data protection law, and cannot nullify a law.
"could be accomplished by humans in a few hours." for 1000 time the resource price tag (dev. and money), and an infinity time the human life risk (rover human risk=0, and can be repeated, and nothing stop us sending 6 more rover. Or for the same price tag as the human mission, 600 more rover. Now your few hours don't look so good, aren't they ?). Human use food. Rover solar panel. Rover can stay weeks, month and apparently years. Furthermore , even if we can organize an expedition to mars (I am still doubtful on that) in many many years, the rover are there NOW. And I can easily imagine rover like vehicle surviving a few day, a few week, or at worst a few hours on the surface of other planetoid in our system. I can imagine that in MY lifetime. Not so for human, on say, europa, or even let us dream, pluto.
Since apparently this passport RFID will sped up passing through airport gate, you will have a better probability of only killing speedy american, whereas the rest of us will still be stuck for hours (for days) in security queues. Finally I knew having a paper passport and be forced to take the longest queue would someday be an advantage.
Since microsoft make format going obsolescent, it certainly point to it that people wanting to use electronic documentation for anything not ephemeral (aka: for years) need to be prepared to use an open document format (or simple text without formating). In other word decoupling the format from the software.
In 25 years you will still able to use an open ISO standard or convert from one standard to another. Microsoft jsut proved to you they are unreliable for the goal you had (forward compatibility).
Arrogance is to bar country the same sort of advance and wealth you enjoy right now, under the pretense that since they are far more, they will pollute more... Start by reducing your own carbon footprint, THEN you will be able to claim/request that other country meet the same standard. Until then the US as a whole has no right whatsoever to comment on what other country emit as carbon footprint.
Either you want to say folks - wagon or volkswagen in german : volkswagen.com.
Isn't this a classic definition of fascism ? I mean the government being a puppet of firm & corporation ? Because if I read that right, this more or less means the FBI suddenly become a special police specifically helping policing employee of corporation... I could be wrong on the definition, though...
That make it a factor 4 error on the accelration A calculation. (I had taken 480 kmh as average speed instead of 240). Don't really matter. Red-meat-mash ex-driver is still dead as dead can be. even at 125g. This is why I hate tv-sf.
Assuming constant acceleration A, speed increasing linearly A.t (speed=0 at t=0), meaning it reaches a distance X=A.t^2 (t=0 then x=0) transforming mile into furlong (sorry I meant meter) means at 12 foot it has roughly 4 meters, and a speed of roughly 300*1.6=480 km-1. Now I don't want to make complex calculation, so I will assume it will have over the 12 foot an average speed of (480+0)/2=240 km.h-1. Which is 130 meter.second -1 (we go for rough estimate). It will so take it roughly 0.03 second to make that distance of 4m with an average speed of 130 m.s-1. Since we know that X=4meter=A.T^2 and t=0.03 we get A=x/t^2=4225 meter.s-2. For reference g=9 m.s-2 so he will feel a force of 470 g roughly. Naturally I bet there are some errors in the above particularly how I calculate the time it takes.
The witcher is a long RPG, better than NWN 2+MoB IMHO, and full of choice. I would crown it in one of the top 3 RPG, if there was not this stupid flaw on saving (game autosave at each map transition at night, you can't turn autosave off, and saving seem to take quite a long time... Apparently they will release a patch to solve that). It is a game of gray, evil/good is not so obvious, and actually if you eliminate the fantasy part, some of the stuff sound "plausible" story wise (consistent and solid), and so it makes it immersing. Combat is also nice with the combo things, where you have different type of attacks (group/strong/light) with a sort of paper-scissor-stone system without being too repetitive. It is also quite long as RPG. Very good. I dunno if it is out for the US...
I mean, if I am joe-everybody, and got somehow a pda with wireless connection in a stadium or mobile phone+internet, how can they even hope to stop me writing post in a blog (or even a normal html web page) on the exciting match I am just watching ? I can't see anything copyrighted here (describing an event in writing) where they could even stops me, would not it ? Less even detect at which seating I am ?
If they want to keep the same voice actor before he dies of old age.
Because they prefer the distortion induced which sound to them more "warm" "sweet" or whatever adjective they want to qualify it, in comparison to digital processing, which has different set of distortion. But in the very end, whether one is better than the other for an everyday use (aka : not 1kw amplification) is a question of what attribute you are looking at. And as far as I know, for convenience/portability and quality of sound reproduction in comparison to the original nothing beat digital (and that is not even counting the new vinyl which are saved from a digitally processed signal to start with...).