What if when the music was placed on the device, some sort of noise watermark was added, the pattern of which is calculated from your unique fingerprint. As long as this watermark was in the actual audio, but wasn't noticable to the listener (i.e. too quiet or just out of the range of human hearing), it could pontentially be traced back to you. This wouldn't be trivial, but it could be done. You'll just have to make sure you record through the proper filters when recording to circumvent.
Same here! Actually, I'm really surprised that the TelCo companies haven't started doing this at a larger scale yet, as it seems that it's the only way they'll be able to compete with the cable companies, especially if VoIP takes off.
I don't think the goal of finding cures for diseases should be to prevent death, but rather to improve the quality of life. Technicality maybe, but I think it's an important distinction. I have no qualms about my tax money funding cancer/AIDS/heart disease/Parkinson's/Alzheimer's research knowing that it might prevent myeslf or someone in my family dying a painful or premature death. I do, however, take issue with my money funding a search for the Fountain of Youth.*
I am aware that my tax money is not funding this particular research.
While you were reading this sentence, a dozen people just died, worldwide. There. Another dozen people have perished. I think this is an outrage.
How is this an 'outrage'? Death is a fundamental part of the life process, and natural death should not anger people! Yes, it is sad to lose loved ones, and almost everyone would gladly accept a few more years tacked onto their life, but to be angered that life ends, and to equate natural death with a holocaust is just selfish megalomania.
WSF is obviously a/. typo. Even on NTT DoCoMo's own website they refer to it as VSF-OFCDM.
I found a good PDF Presentation from NTT DoCoMo explaining in detail VSF-OFCDM. Of interest is its use of Turbo codes for the channel encoding (Turbo codes were mentioned in a previous Slashdot story), and that the uplink bandwidth of the system is 40MHz versus the downlink bandwidth of 101.5MHz. Very interesting stuff!
Apparently someone got their grubby little hands on a beta version of Microsoft's iPod killer. I must say, it's very stylish, and I wouldn't mind losing the portability of my iPod to show off this baby. Hot!
If by 'scammer' you meant the woman with the curly blonde hair, I believe that she's the Fed-Ex delivery person. I haven't seen any pictures of the person who picked it up. Anyone else?
Doesn't anyone remember this? The e-ink devices look like they will be much better for reading text than a traditional LCD on a PDA or e-book reader. Unfortunately it seems they're only available in Japan right now... amazon.co.jp lists the Sony one... I'm sure you could get it shipped to the US, but at ~$422 it's not exactly cheap, not to mention who knows if any of the interface/software is in English.. Plus, since it's Sony it's doubtful that it will work with anything but Sony PCs.
Basically, this doesn't help you at all (sorry), but I would personally wait for e-ink devices to show up here.
"For us right now the issue is not, 'Do we make another $300,000 by raising the price five cents?"' says a music company executive. "It's making sure the market grows."
Bullsh*t. Really, how idiodic are these people? Hiking up the price to $1.50/$2.50 a track is not going to increase your market share!! Do they think teenagers are loaded? When I was a teenager, I only had money in the summer from working. I certainly coudn't afford >$20 a week on CDs throughout the rest of the year. If they raise the price to be more than $1 a track I expect usage to decline quite rapidly. Personally, if a CD is only $1 more than how much it would cost to download the tracks, I'd rather have the high quality CD over the (slightly) greater convenience (I order most of my CDs online anyway).
"Justice may be blind, but she is also slow"..."Justice is blind, slow, and unequal"
Hey, stop picking on poor Justice. Sure she may have put on a few pounds, is no longer nicknamed 'swift Justice' any longer and has clouded vision at times, but I'd still rather have her as my friend than my enemy.
That's the point... "everything else" doesn't really exist.... it is only thought to exist. I don't believe this to be true, however... I just thought it was an interesting quote =D
At forty miles from Pluto to Sun, the largest complete three-dimensional scale model of the Solar System in the World.
Although the one mentioned above also claims 40 miles from Sun to Pluto. One of them has to be the largest, although the one in Illinois claims to have Guinness backing them. U. Maine may not have applied for the claim.
You could always 'extrude' a unique house like this, which is located near where I live. It certainly looks like it was extruded by something, and it is definitely unique:
...the second incarnation of the carorcar site, this time copying the Finger Lakes Region Sports Car Club of America's web page is much faster than the actual legit site... for now anyway.
I've had good luck with Kershaw knives. They tend to be harder to come across than Leatherman's or Victorinox's, but they are solidly built, and not as over-priced as the others often are. I particularly like the vise-grip feature of the pliers. (Other brands may feature this too).
I realize you didn't know you had bootlegs (from your other post), but I'm curious as to how you could have believed that a legit 7 disc DVD collection would sell for $32; especially official Japanese versions. I had purchased an official Japanese version of Spirited Away on DVD from a distributor in Japan before it was released here, and it cost me $50, not including shipping. If you really want to avoid Disney, and purchase a release from Japan, you have to be prepared to spend more than double what you would pay here.
I had to re-purchase Spirited Away, as all of my DVDs were stolen, and I bought the 2-disc US version, not wanting to shell out another $50, and actually I can't remember anything being on the Japanese release (also 2-disc) that's not on the US one.
Man, I wish I had as much free time as you do. Next time I have a problem with customer service, I'll give you their info, and let you handle the process;-)
Seriously though, while I agree that this form of action is the only really effective way to make a change, most people (myself included) I doubt have the patience/time to coerce the company to change their policies. It's much easier to complain to the point where you get your answer/result, and then leave it at that. Sad, I know...
Exactly. This doesn't seem to take into account the possible self-repair that the brain performs. It could very well be that any damage inflicted on the brain via magnetic fields would be repaired during sleep.
It's been reported that sleep repairs the normal daily damage done on the brain from free radicals (different stages of sleep repairing different parts of the brain), and I can't see why this wouldn't carry over to magnetic damage. Is there a neurosurgeon in the house?
The difference between this and say, a DVD, is that with traditional media like DVDs is that the information is read bit-by-bit in a one-dimensional fashion. In the case of this application, the laser is beamed into a waveguide, and the convex/concave topology of the waveguide causes the laser to scatter. This scattered light generates a 2D image of the encoded data on a plane parallel to the waveguide, which is 'read' via an image sensor. In other words, the application of the laser will yield an entire plane of data, while a DVD will only give a bit at a time
You are right about it being a multilayer film, with each film being independantly addressable, but they are holograms.. Just a bunch of them stacked up =)
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What if when the music was placed on the device, some sort of noise watermark was added, the pattern of which is calculated from your unique fingerprint. As long as this watermark was in the actual audio, but wasn't noticable to the listener (i.e. too quiet or just out of the range of human hearing), it could pontentially be traced back to you. This wouldn't be trivial, but it could be done. You'll just have to make sure you record through the proper filters when recording to circumvent.
Same here! Actually, I'm really surprised that the TelCo companies haven't started doing this at a larger scale yet, as it seems that it's the only way they'll be able to compete with the cable companies, especially if VoIP takes off.
I wonder how long it will be before the local utility offers a 24 Gb/s connection
Probably around the same time as when they start bringing fibre to the home.
I don't think the goal of finding cures for diseases should be to prevent death, but rather to improve the quality of life. Technicality maybe, but I think it's an important distinction. I have no qualms about my tax money funding cancer/AIDS/heart disease/Parkinson's/Alzheimer's research knowing that it might prevent myeslf or someone in my family dying a painful or premature death. I do, however, take issue with my money funding a search for the Fountain of Youth.*
I am aware that my tax money is not funding this particular research.
How is this an 'outrage'? Death is a fundamental part of the life process, and natural death should not anger people! Yes, it is sad to lose loved ones, and almost everyone would gladly accept a few more years tacked onto their life, but to be angered that life ends, and to equate natural death with a holocaust is just selfish megalomania.
WSF is obviously a /. typo. Even on NTT DoCoMo's own website they refer to it as VSF-OFCDM.
I found a good PDF Presentation from NTT DoCoMo explaining in detail VSF-OFCDM. Of interest is its use of Turbo codes for the channel encoding (Turbo codes were mentioned in a previous Slashdot story), and that the uplink bandwidth of the system is 40MHz versus the downlink bandwidth of 101.5MHz. Very interesting stuff!
Apparently someone got their grubby little hands on a beta version of Microsoft's iPod killer. I must say, it's very stylish, and I wouldn't mind losing the portability of my iPod to show off this baby. Hot!
If by 'scammer' you meant the woman with the curly blonde hair, I believe that she's the Fed-Ex delivery person. I haven't seen any pictures of the person who picked it up. Anyone else?
Maybe, but who'd want to purchase something from a verified eBay scammer?
Doesn't anyone remember this? The e-ink devices look like they will be much better for reading text than a traditional LCD on a PDA or e-book reader. Unfortunately it seems they're only available in Japan right now... amazon.co.jp lists the Sony one... I'm sure you could get it shipped to the US, but at ~$422 it's not exactly cheap, not to mention who knows if any of the interface/software is in English.. Plus, since it's Sony it's doubtful that it will work with anything but Sony PCs.
Basically, this doesn't help you at all (sorry), but I would personally wait for e-ink devices to show up here.
while the rovers look poised to greatly exceed their planned life cycle, they could basically die at any time.
Kinda like Dick Clark?
Bullsh*t. Really, how idiodic are these people? Hiking up the price to $1.50/$2.50 a track is not going to increase your market share!! Do they think teenagers are loaded? When I was a teenager, I only had money in the summer from working. I certainly coudn't afford >$20 a week on CDs throughout the rest of the year. If they raise the price to be more than $1 a track I expect usage to decline quite rapidly. Personally, if a CD is only $1 more than how much it would cost to download the tracks, I'd rather have the high quality CD over the (slightly) greater convenience (I order most of my CDs online anyway).
"Justice may be blind, but she is also slow"..."Justice is blind, slow, and unequal"
Hey, stop picking on poor Justice. Sure she may have put on a few pounds, is no longer nicknamed 'swift Justice' any longer and has clouded vision at times, but I'd still rather have her as my friend than my enemy.
That's the point... "everything else" doesn't really exist.... it is only thought to exist. I don't believe this to be true, however... I just thought it was an interesting quote =D
...the second incarnation of the carorcar site, this time copying the Finger Lakes Region Sports Car Club of America's web page is much faster than the actual legit site... for now anyway.
I've had good luck with Kershaw knives. They tend to be harder to come across than Leatherman's or Victorinox's, but they are solidly built, and not as over-priced as the others often are. I particularly like the vise-grip feature of the pliers. (Other brands may feature this too).
I realize you didn't know you had bootlegs (from your other post), but I'm curious as to how you could have believed that a legit 7 disc DVD collection would sell for $32; especially official Japanese versions. I had purchased an official Japanese version of Spirited Away on DVD from a distributor in Japan before it was released here, and it cost me $50, not including shipping. If you really want to avoid Disney, and purchase a release from Japan, you have to be prepared to spend more than double what you would pay here.
I had to re-purchase Spirited Away, as all of my DVDs were stolen, and I bought the 2-disc US version, not wanting to shell out another $50, and actually I can't remember anything being on the Japanese release (also 2-disc) that's not on the US one.
This article's comments have the lowest signal to noise ratio I've seen in a long time.
Does anyone have a link to still shots of the movie? I can't get streaming media through our company's proxy.
Man, I wish I had as much free time as you do. Next time I have a problem with customer service, I'll give you their info, and let you handle the process ;-)
Seriously though, while I agree that this form of action is the only really effective way to make a change, most people (myself included) I doubt have the patience/time to coerce the company to change their policies. It's much easier to complain to the point where you get your answer/result, and then leave it at that. Sad, I know...
Exactly. This doesn't seem to take into account the possible self-repair that the brain performs. It could very well be that any damage inflicted on the brain via magnetic fields would be repaired during sleep.
It's been reported that sleep repairs the normal daily damage done on the brain from free radicals (different stages of sleep repairing different parts of the brain), and I can't see why this wouldn't carry over to magnetic damage. Is there a neurosurgeon in the house?
The difference between this and say, a DVD, is that with traditional media like DVDs is that the information is read bit-by-bit in a one-dimensional fashion. In the case of this application, the laser is beamed into a waveguide, and the convex/concave topology of the waveguide causes the laser to scatter. This scattered light generates a 2D image of the encoded data on a plane parallel to the waveguide, which is 'read' via an image sensor. In other words, the application of the laser will yield an entire plane of data, while a DVD will only give a bit at a time
You are right about it being a multilayer film, with each film being independantly addressable, but they are holograms.. Just a bunch of them stacked up =)
See the offical NTT news release for more information. (In English)
Try telling my boss that ;-)