> if they could make microphones that weren't affected by room dimensions, walls, etc
This should be possible as processing step with PC audio software. Just record a loud click-type noise (eg let a balloon burst). This is the "finite impulse response" (FIR) of your room. It describes how your room responds to a single impulse.
Using a mathematical formula, software can calculate the inverse impulse response from this. This can be used to remove the effects that your room had on a recorded signal.
This is very basic DSP stuff, and every better audio software should be able to do it for you.
Marc
PS: Modems use the same technique to enhance throughput. It was introduced in v.32 (9600). The line distortion is measured during the connect phase, and used to substract the line artefacts from the signal. When the line characteristics changes (may happen after a few minutes), the signal quality degrades and the modem performs a new measurement (retrain). You noticed this as a short hang of 2-3 seconds, eg when your little sister accidently picked up the 2nd phone while you were online.
Ha! No problem. Just make the file system "sector size" equal to the MMU page size, and you can dynamically map the executable file into the machine address space.
One very simple possibility to deny bootleg videos is to install a high power infrared light source. Most video cameras pick up infrared just as good as visible light. Thus the bootleg copy is just garbage.
However, photography accessories include infrared filters, which may cut down on quality (hey, what quality???), but enable the bootlegger to continue his job. Also, to my knowledge there is no study about the medical effects of beaming high wattage infrared light right into the eyes of cinema visitors (including children).
> a growing desire by governments to abolish double jeopardy
Well, they could follow the US idea of "enemy combatants" and simply declare the 1st trial as "not a trial" but rather a provisional judgement and the proceed to the "real" trial.
> Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my LCD to STOP making noises, > that I'd pay you for.
Oh, I'm sure some geek will be able to do it with that screen, along the lines of "active noise cancellation". All it takes is a good measurement (or prediction) of the noise that your LCD generates, and then playing an exact inverse of it. This cancels the noise.
The same principle is used in propellor avionation (remove motor noise from comm headphones), and luxury cars ("shape" motor noise by removing uncomfortable components, while retaining the desired ones).
> hopefully the codec support can be upgraded by the user.
AFAIK there's not a software codec, but a decoder chip. The chip natively supports MPEG4 which is used by DIVX-5. That is, it plays DVD, SVCD and DIVX-5 by hardware. The big news is that KiSS enhanced their firmware to transcode DIVX-3/4 into DIVX-5, so that they same hardware is able to play it. Obviously this transcoding is comutationally "cheap", otherwise it wouldn't be possible by just a firmware update. After all, DIVX-3/4 already used MPEG4, so probably the transcoding boils down to remove some invalid framing data or the like.
I doubt that you can make this player play back some completely unrelated format, like Real or Quicktime. It doesn't have the horsepower to decode videostreams in pure software.
www.aljazeerah.info works and is fast
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http://www.aljazeerah.info works, is english, and is fast. It has all the pictures, cartoons etc.
There is a BIG one: you can't receive email from other Mailblocks subscribers.
Unless their filter automatically marks all Mailblocks subscribers as "green", that is. But this would enable spammers to spam from (or forged-from) Mailblocks when spamming Mailbocks accounts.
US government has sighted a dangerous Iraqi worker with a barrel, obviously full of nuclear waste, maybe on his way to arm a missle.
Later the day, the same man was sighted again, but with a different barrel. This time obviously he had no nuclear waste. Probably this time it's just the fuel to fire the missle:
Most smartcards have tamper sensors, which include the clock line. You can't overclock a smartcard (significantly) because it will detect it and simply refuse to operate. BTW, you can't underclock it either (to simplify power analysis, or "single step" the card), this is also detected by most cards..
From a LAN-enabled VCR I'd expect far more than just a dumb web interface to program it. I'd expect playback of digital movies (AVI) from LAN hosted storage, et al. A dumb web server is a toy that drives up cost, but (probably) not sales. The stuff that's really worth the effort, requires more power than an 80186 in an RJ45 jack.
Unless the fridge manufacturer already installs the webcam and digtal temperatur sensor in the fridge, there is no point for him to install the web-enabler at all.
I don't think that HonestThief can function, because
1. RIAA won't let him distribute music electronically without restrictions (DRM) no matter how much he pays them per song. RIAA views at every unlocked MP3 as source of hundreds, if not thousands of pirate copies.
2. CPU cycles are difficult to sell, especially when they are not reliable (client might just disappear for a month) and not trustworthy (client might sabotage the project by producing false computation results).
I see a possible way for it to function, but it would be a complete rip-off. Note that this not related to reality at all - it's pure imagination. I possess no knowledge about HonestThief (I've not even read the article, just the Slashdot comments!).
A. don't intend to pay the music producers at all, just prepare to disappear within a months (or go bankrupt)
B. don't intend to sell the CPU cycles. Instead, consume them yourself. The best (but most illegal!) purpose would be to crack some cryptographic secret that can be turned into money later. You know, bank network security etc - let your imagination play..
I'm not suggesting that HonestThief is planning any such thing.. It's just that I can't figure out how his business model can work.
Flash is increasingly used for advertisement banners, instead of plain and simple animated GIFs. I had a hard time trying to understand why this is done. Now I know - the banners slip through the WebWasher & Co radar!!! They are displayed on (otherwise) banner-free browsers!
Imagine two planets orbiting "themselves". A double-planet minisystem which, as a whole, orbits a star. Much like earth and moon, except that moon is too small to have athmosphere and life. If that prehistiorian impact that allegdly separated earth and moon had hit in a different way, maybe earth and moon were now of same size, and both had atmosphere? Would they then disqualify as planets?
Pluto is not a planet to the definition. However, it is the first thing "close" to a planet, which Americans discovered. They wanted to join the "hall of fame" of planet discoverers, so they convinced the world that they better accept Pluto as planet.
Here's a link (of many) with more details: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98feb/pluto.htm
Marc
PS: History repeats, you can see it in daily news. What doesn't fit, is made fit.
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I hate to reply to myself, but even more I hate to not check links:(
The link is in german and requires a lot of click-though until you hit the download. An easier location to get KNOPPIX is the ftp server, eg this one:
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/knoppix/
You find KNOPPIX on many big linux distro mirrors, so go to your favourite one..
Check out KNOPPIX at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix
KNOPPIX is a linux that boots from CD-R. It doesn't change or install anything on your system. Your harddrives are mounted as read-only, with support for NTFS.
The makers of KNOPPIX encourage you to customize it. You can fit your own software (eg anti-virus programs) into the compressed ram disk container. The building is there, ready for you to move in! And it's free...
Slashdot Mirror
..then you could download the new (cracked) design files 2 weeks before they release the "original".
> if they could make microphones that weren't affected by room dimensions, walls, etc
This should be possible as processing step with PC audio software. Just
record a loud click-type noise (eg let a balloon burst). This is the
"finite impulse response" (FIR) of your room. It describes how your
room responds to a single impulse.
Using a mathematical formula, software can calculate the inverse impulse
response from this. This can be used to remove the effects that your
room had on a recorded signal.
This is very basic DSP stuff, and every better audio software should be
able to do it for you.
Marc
PS: Modems use the same technique to enhance throughput. It was
introduced in v.32 (9600). The line distortion is measured during the
connect phase, and used to substract the line artefacts from the signal.
When the line characteristics changes (may happen after a few minutes),
the signal quality degrades and the modem performs a new measurement
(retrain). You noticed this as a short hang of 2-3 seconds, eg when
your little sister accidently picked up the 2nd phone while you were
online.
> Or is it silly to even think of having 300 pages of this stuff
PAGE CAPACITY OVERFLOW - download aborted.
Your book doesn't support more than 504 pages.
Could someone please hurry up and create an SVCD bootleg screener for :-)
KAZAA? I'd really like to download that IMAX experience now
> Execute in Place (EIP)
Ha! No problem. Just make the file system "sector size" equal to the MMU page
size, and you can dynamically map the executable file into the machine address
space.
One very simple possibility to deny bootleg videos is to install a high power
infrared light source. Most video cameras pick up infrared just as good as
visible light. Thus the bootleg copy is just garbage.
However, photography accessories include infrared filters, which may cut down
on quality (hey, what quality???), but enable the bootlegger to continue his
job. Also, to my knowledge there is no study about the medical effects of
beaming high wattage infrared light right into the eyes of cinema visitors
(including children).
Marc
> a growing desire by governments to abolish double jeopardy
Well, they could follow the US idea of "enemy combatants" and
simply declare the 1st trial as "not a trial" but rather a
provisional judgement and the proceed to the "real" trial.
... because it has the evil bit set. Had you installed
the RFC update already, you wouldn't even have seen it!
> Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my LCD to STOP making noises,
> that I'd pay you for.
Oh, I'm sure some geek will be able to do it with that screen, along the
lines of "active noise cancellation". All it takes is a good measurement
(or prediction) of the noise that your LCD generates, and then playing an
exact inverse of it. This cancels the noise.
The same principle is used in propellor avionation (remove motor noise
from comm headphones), and luxury cars ("shape" motor noise by removing
uncomfortable components, while retaining the desired ones).
Marc
> hopefully the codec support can be upgraded by the user.
AFAIK there's not a software codec, but a decoder chip. The chip natively
supports MPEG4 which is used by DIVX-5. That is, it plays DVD, SVCD and
DIVX-5 by hardware. The big news is that KiSS enhanced their firmware to
transcode DIVX-3/4 into DIVX-5, so that they same hardware is able to play
it. Obviously this transcoding is comutationally "cheap", otherwise it
wouldn't be possible by just a firmware update. After all, DIVX-3/4 already
used MPEG4, so probably the transcoding boils down to remove some invalid
framing data or the like.
I doubt that you can make this player play back some completely unrelated
format, like Real or Quicktime. It doesn't have the horsepower to decode
videostreams in pure software.
http://www.aljazeerah.info works, is english, and is fast.
It has all the pictures, cartoons etc.
> eieoeaoueoeieoeoauoeoaoeoaoueoaoeuoaaaaaaaaaa
When it goes "aaaaaaa" you're about to loose carrier.
> There are probably others I can't think of.
There is a BIG one: you can't receive email from other Mailblocks subscribers.
Unless their filter automatically marks all Mailblocks subscribers as "green", that is. But this would enable spammers to spam from (or forged-from) Mailblocks when spamming Mailbocks accounts.
Marc
Look here:
e ts /content.9.html
e ts /content.5.html
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0303/leafl
US government has sighted a dangerous Iraqi worker with a barrel,
obviously full of nuclear waste, maybe on his way to arm a missle.
Later the day, the same man was sighted again, but with a different
barrel. This time obviously he had no nuclear waste. Probably this
time it's just the fuel to fire the missle:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0303/leafl
Or is it?
> "high end" RJ11 cables for dial-up modems
Oh. Will they ramp up the audio quality of downloaded Kazaa content?
Most smartcards have tamper sensors, which include the clock line. You can't overclock a smartcard (significantly) because it will detect it and simply refuse to operate. BTW, you can't underclock it either (to simplify power analysis, or "single step" the card), this is also detected by most cards..
They used the light buld as HEAT source, not as a LIGHT source.
From a LAN-enabled VCR I'd expect far more than just a dumb
web interface to program it. I'd expect playback of digital
movies (AVI) from LAN hosted storage, et al. A dumb web
server is a toy that drives up cost, but (probably) not sales.
The stuff that's really worth the effort, requires more power
than an 80186 in an RJ45 jack.
Unless the fridge manufacturer already installs the webcam and digtal
temperatur sensor in the fridge, there is no point for him to install
the web-enabler at all.
I don't think that HonestThief can function, because
1. RIAA won't let him distribute music electronically without restrictions (DRM) no matter how much he pays them per song. RIAA views at every unlocked MP3 as source of hundreds, if not thousands of pirate copies.
2. CPU cycles are difficult to sell, especially when they are not reliable (client might just disappear for a month) and not trustworthy (client might sabotage the project by producing false computation results).
I see a possible way for it to function, but it would be a complete rip-off. Note that this not related to reality at all - it's pure imagination. I possess no knowledge about HonestThief (I've not even read the article, just the Slashdot comments!).
A. don't intend to pay the music producers at all, just prepare to disappear within a months (or go bankrupt)
B. don't intend to sell the CPU cycles. Instead, consume them yourself. The best (but most illegal!) purpose would be to crack some cryptographic secret that can be turned into money later. You know, bank network security etc - let your imagination play..
I'm not suggesting that HonestThief is planning any such thing.. It's just that I can't figure out how his business model can work.
Marc
> Flash popups anyone? That's innovation for ya.
Flash is increasingly used for advertisement banners, instead of plain and simple animated GIFs. I had a hard time trying to understand why this is done. Now I know - the banners slip through the WebWasher & Co radar!!! They are displayed on (otherwise) banner-free browsers!
> a planet must orbit a star, not another planet
Imagine two planets orbiting "themselves". A double-planet minisystem which, as a whole, orbits a star. Much like earth and moon, except that moon is too small to have athmosphere and life. If that prehistiorian impact that allegdly separated earth and moon had hit in a different way, maybe earth and moon were now of same size, and both had atmosphere? Would they then disqualify as planets?
It boils down to - what is orbiting, exactly?
> Pluto ~ 1130
Pluto is not a planet to the definition. However, it is the first thing "close" to a planet, which Americans discovered. They wanted to join the "hall of fame" of planet discoverers, so they convinced the world that they better accept Pluto as planet.
Here's a link (of many) with more details: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98feb/pluto.htm
Marc
PS: History repeats, you can see it in daily news. What doesn't fit, is made fit.
I hate to reply to myself, but even more I hate to not check links :(
The link is in german and requires a lot of click-though until you hit the download. An easier location to get KNOPPIX is the ftp server, eg this one:
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/knoppix/
You find KNOPPIX on many big linux distro mirrors, so go to your favourite one..
Marc
Check out KNOPPIX at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix
KNOPPIX is a linux that boots from CD-R. It doesn't change or install anything on your system. Your harddrives are mounted as read-only, with support for NTFS.
The makers of KNOPPIX encourage you to customize it. You can fit your own software (eg anti-virus programs) into the compressed ram disk container. The building is there, ready for you to move in! And it's free...
Marc