I think a good way would be to overlay the image with one of those red bordered "CENSORED" stamps. Assuming you allow for the rotation and scaling of the overlay, someone of sufficient skill and patience would be able to code in the transformations on the "CENSORED" stamp in such a way as to encode the original image within it.
Now normally you'd only need to write to the image, but reading the original pixels could be done under the guise of antialiasing the edges, for example. With a seemingly innocuous bug introduced into this, one might be able to encode the original image at 1/4 of the resolution and hide it in the red border surrounding the word.
All joking aside, can we put the "Slashdotters never get girls" meme out to pasture? I've been married for six years (and reading Slashdot for ten) and have two kids, and there's plenty others like me. The joke was kinda funny the first eleventy billion times it was made, but it's old and busted now. It's not that I'm offended by it (I'm not), it's that it's just... tired. So, uh... you must be new here?
It would be like going to a model train club and expecting help to build radio controlled airplanes. It's not their forte. Oh come now, that's an apples and oranges comparison. If you really want to make a train analogy, it's more like going to a model train club and asking for help with your engine placement so that instead of pulling from the front, you'd be pushing in the rear.
I have 12 patents in my name that have been issued in multiple countries
Thief (patents are theft). I don't mean to speak on behalf of the GP, but a patent is not theft. A patent is the public documentation of how an invention works. You can argue that the enforcement of one's limited exclusivity on non-private use of a patented invention is theft, but a patent itself is not.
Seeing as how that would be difficult due to timezones and long distance fees, having a few written letters of reference before you leave might be a good idea. If the prospective employer can wake up early or stay up late and their cashflow can manage the 6 cents a minute it costs to phone Australia, I think it might be a good idea to place that phone call before investing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in a new employee.
I think the noise refers to the many black dots found on the page itself. Just below the vertical bottom of the first section, if you scroll all the way to the right you'll see a cluster of three dots and, going down-left from there, another two dots, another two dots, etc.
Or look at the symbol section. You'll see the first symbol for 6 looks like a horizontal bar with a vertical hook and a dot under the bar. The second symbol for 6 has no dot. And to the right of the second symbol for 6 is a vertical cluster of three dots.
Maybe they're nothing, but I get the sneaking suspicion that it's the dots (noise) that's the real puzzle here. Potentially with the symbols indicating the relative geometric arrangement of the dots that then map back to the letters/numbers.
We have another solution at my office (where we do pair programming stuff). Two people... sit next to each other... at the same screen, with two mice / two keyboards. (yay USB!) And what do you use for the two cursors in two different parts of the document?
If they work things out, you are the guy who tried to help her get out of the marriage. I got the impression that this just might be the submitter's goal. Maybe the wife and him are having an affair and she (and he) wants to keep it from the husband.
Either way, your and the GP's comments are spot on. There isn't a technical solution to a social problem.
Sounds like you're the sensationalist one out for attention. Scroll to the top of the page. Notice the image of that guy with the black bar over his mouth which, if you mouseover it, has an ALT tag of "Censorship"? This was marked as being in the Censorship category, likely what the GP was referring to.
Naturally you'll now retract your accusation that the GP was seeking attention and perhaps draw less attention to yourself in the future.
One of the proposed explanations for how it works -- and exactly how it does work is not presently known -- is that it could be "a type of Jaumann absorber, which reflects incoming radar waves in such a way that they cancel each other out". The other way is some type of absorption. Also, do you have an idea of how much energy is put out by the typical radar? I'm guessing even if it fully absorbed 100% of the energy from the radar and converted it to heat, it would be so minuscule as to not matter.
If I have learned anything in my life worth knowing is that the universe than we want to give it credit for. Something missing there... "is simpler" you mean?
Apple doesn't care about marketing, they are only interested in making quality profits. Fixed that typo for you. You're welcome. Wonderful -- with that one modification you turned a brilliant piece of irony into an obvious, lame, and forced joke.
Ever happened to you? I was signing up on a music website with a gmail address, and then they asked me if I wanted to send invites to all my contacts, which magicaly appeared on their page. Even if it is apparently a common practice, I find it very disturbing. How about you try using a different password on sites you visit rather than reusing your Gmail password for non-Gmail purposes? Otherwise, someone with a cheap script will use the same password you signed up with on the site to spam your friends, read your mail, etc.
That said, SHOULD they change their mind? I think that forcing your customers into one path tends to piss them off, especially if your forcing them into a path that is extremely profitable for you (AKA MS Vendor lockin). They're pissing off their vendors, not their customers. Much in the same way that Wal*Mart strong-arms suppliers, but their customers appreciate the lower prices. If the end quality of product is the same or better, why should a customer care that it was printed by Amazon rather than some third party printer?
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I think a good way would be to overlay the image with one of those red bordered "CENSORED" stamps. Assuming you allow for the rotation and scaling of the overlay, someone of sufficient skill and patience would be able to code in the transformations on the "CENSORED" stamp in such a way as to encode the original image within it.
Now normally you'd only need to write to the image, but reading the original pixels could be done under the guise of antialiasing the edges, for example. With a seemingly innocuous bug introduced into this, one might be able to encode the original image at 1/4 of the resolution and hide it in the red border surrounding the word.
Thief (patents are theft). I don't mean to speak on behalf of the GP, but a patent is not theft. A patent is the public documentation of how an invention works. You can argue that the enforcement of one's limited exclusivity on non-private use of a patented invention is theft, but a patent itself is not.
I'd say layer -- having several hundred lasers in a single drive is a sure sign you've jumped the shark.
The difference is this: a cult is an unpopular religion whereas religion is a popular cult.
I think the noise refers to the many black dots found on the page itself. Just below the vertical bottom of the first section, if you scroll all the way to the right you'll see a cluster of three dots and, going down-left from there, another two dots, another two dots, etc.
Or look at the symbol section. You'll see the first symbol for 6 looks like a horizontal bar with a vertical hook and a dot under the bar. The second symbol for 6 has no dot. And to the right of the second symbol for 6 is a vertical cluster of three dots.
Maybe they're nothing, but I get the sneaking suspicion that it's the dots (noise) that's the real puzzle here. Potentially with the symbols indicating the relative geometric arrangement of the dots that then map back to the letters/numbers.
I hear Nostrildamus builds beowulf clusters of those down at the ol'factory.
Either way, your and the GP's comments are spot on. There isn't a technical solution to a social problem.
Now all we need is retinal/facial recognition and we'll have the perfectly offensive onslaught of advertisements available to us.
How did you like the last ad greeting you by name, John Anderton?
Sounds like you're the sensationalist one out for attention. Scroll to the top of the page. Notice the image of that guy with the black bar over his mouth which, if you mouseover it, has an ALT tag of "Censorship"? This was marked as being in the Censorship category, likely what the GP was referring to.
Naturally you'll now retract your accusation that the GP was seeking attention and perhaps draw less attention to yourself in the future.
One of the proposed explanations for how it works -- and exactly how it does work is not presently known -- is that it could be "a type of Jaumann absorber, which reflects incoming radar waves in such a way that they cancel each other out". The other way is some type of absorption. Also, do you have an idea of how much energy is put out by the typical radar? I'm guessing even if it fully absorbed 100% of the energy from the radar and converted it to heat, it would be so minuscule as to not matter.
Use both. Problem solved.
"Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell."
-- Erik Naggum
A hilarious read:
http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html
Apple doesn't care about marketing, they are only interested in making quality profits. Fixed that typo for you. You're welcome. Wonderful -- with that one modification you turned a brilliant piece of irony into an obvious, lame, and forced joke.
Okay, I will now memorize that video ID... and here I thought I was immune to a little R & R.