It appeared that Tony Blair and George Bush had solved the impasse in May, when they announced an agreement in principle that the UK would be given access to the classified details on conditions of strict secrecy "Don't worry Tony, I'll send you the code by email"
"has become a legacy technology, as old and out of style as IBM's (IBM) mainframe computers and SAP's corporate applications"
I sure hope the sarcasm in this sentence was clear, as both mainframe and SAP developpers are some of the best paid positions in the industry.
"the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of 2? THIS MEANS that you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly"
No, that's not what it MEANS.
For the ration to MEAN something, find me a relation between A and B paper, not between A4 and A3...
The fact 2 A4 equals a A3 is because A3 was chosen to be twice as big. Exactly like 8.5x11 and 11x17!
I don't get this obsession with hoping to keep media for 100 years.
Technically punch cards are forever.
Do you still use them ? No, because their storage capacity is ridiculous by today's standard.
In five years you will store your data probably on your solid-state 200 g key-chain....
move with the times..
I assume this is more than a worthless md5 sum: certainly in terms of the images that this guy is talking about it should be possible to steganographically hide a watermark in the image. If the p2p bots checked for this there might be a chance his scheme could work: some watermark techniques are apparently quite robust to re-encoding of the image, etc. Where all this falls down is that it'll be 5 seconds before some w4r3Z d00d releases a p2p client that just lies about having checked for the watermark
It's simpler than that : A watermarked file has to come from a 'legitimate' source.
If *I* put movies or songs up for sharing they won't be watermarked. Even if the original MPG2 or WAV was watermark, the MP3 or MPG4 file *I* generate won't be watermarked.
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"has become a legacy technology, as old and out of style as IBM's (IBM) mainframe computers and SAP's corporate applications" I sure hope the sarcasm in this sentence was clear, as both mainframe and SAP developpers are some of the best paid positions in the industry.
Send me all the free hardware you want!
"the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of 2? THIS MEANS that you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly"
No, that's not what it MEANS.
For the ration to MEAN something, find me a relation between A and B paper, not between A4 and A3...
The fact 2 A4 equals a A3 is because A3 was chosen to be twice as big. Exactly like 8.5x11 and 11x17!
To be fair, most areas of the open source movement contain duplicated work... More free choices = better, IMO
I don't get this obsession with hoping to keep media for 100 years. Technically punch cards are forever. Do you still use them ? No, because their storage capacity is ridiculous by today's standard. In five years you will store your data probably on your solid-state 200 g key-chain.... move with the times..
I assume this is more than a worthless md5 sum: certainly in terms of the images that this guy is talking about it should be possible to steganographically hide a watermark in the image. If the p2p bots checked for this there might be a chance his scheme could work: some watermark techniques are apparently quite robust to re-encoding of the image, etc. Where all this falls down is that it'll be 5 seconds before some w4r3Z d00d releases a p2p client that just lies about having checked for the watermark It's simpler than that : A watermarked file has to come from a 'legitimate' source. If *I* put movies or songs up for sharing they won't be watermarked. Even if the original MPG2 or WAV was watermark, the MP3 or MPG4 file *I* generate won't be watermarked.
popups ? what are popups ? I've never seen one with Mozilla.