The only problem with EXIF is that touching up the photo in photoshop will remove it.
No big problem, you can extract the info from the original to a text or xml file, and then merge it back after doing the edits. This can be automated, just needs a commandline utility capable of extracting the EXIF data to an external file, and then merging them back.
This can also be used for easy faking that the pics are from your camera.
Because hanging LCD monitors on your wall is expensive.
Wait few more years, the situation there will change. There are already prototype e-ink displays on the market now; still black&white, but this is doomed to improve.
How long before there's an embeddable "copyright" watermark that stops your imaging software in its tracks?
Few years.
Then a full war escalates. There are many ways around this - open-source graphics software, various hacks confusing the closed-source software or directly tweaking its code. Then the protection code moves into drivers. People switch to less restrictive hardware vendors. Then it gets mandated by law to have it in the drivers. Hacked illegal versions of drivers start appearing like mushrooms after a warm rain - both for the scanners and the printers, together with the effective equivalents of shift-key and felt-tip marker hacks common in the world of restricted music today.
Then the copyright infringement gets the same handling as drugs, together with armed raids and assets forfeiture plus some more stuff the Patriot Act is really for, and things will become really messy. With the difference that a xeroxed photograph can not be detected by a piss test, huge disk space suitable for unpacked high-quality home DV movies suitable as excellent steganography containers, and all other necessary elements of hightech war between the Laws and the Citizens.
Meanwhile the lawsuits and jails swallowing the best minds of the nation will effectively freeze a good deal of civilian innovation in the North America, and perhaps in the EU, backed by the soundtrack of laughs and cheers from rapidly developing China, South America, and Africa.
So I don't, 50 years from now, go to find that cherished picture of my childhood dog, only to learn that the company I had process it used some sort of slowly decaying dyes, making Rex now bright purple and shaped like a hedgehog painted by Van Gogh.
Which brings the question of long-term storage of digital media.
Re fading colors, hopefully there will be scanners capable of multispectral imaging - with much higher grade of colors sensitive to than just red-green-blue. By measuring the spectrum of each pixel, it should be then possible to reconstruct the amount of the CMYK inks on them, and then calculate back the CMYK image. 50 years is a long time for imaging technology.
It is also fairly possible that in 50 years we will all be parts of cracked glassy slabs made of our cities, and the slightly glowing cockroaches taking our place will have entirely different worries than the durability of color pictures.
A few more lawsuits and the big places will probably close their photo departments. The little guys are probably safe for a while, until the bigger fish have been killed off at least.
Meanwhile, hopefully, there will be yet another next generation of color printers on the market. Compare what was available 5 years ago and what is available now, for how much, on the common civilian lower-cost market. Kill off the professional services, and ink cartridges with low-fading ink will appear together with demand for them. There are enough Chinese manufacturers wanting a piece of the pie.
The adversary won't win. By destroying the middlemen over whom they had at least a shade of control, they will lose control entirely. And it will serve them well.
Meanwhile enjoy the life in the Land of the Fre^H^H^HLawyers.
This opens a solution for all these problems: just forge the permission form. Sure, it can be a crime, but unless somebody notices - which is unlikely if there is no commercial use that could serve as a tip-off for some rat - you'll get away with it.
Any other mechanism that uses expensive IDs that can function in an anonymous environment will also work.
You maybe do not need them at all. Just a combination of the OCRable letters (or a similar measure) with indication in the title of the post that the post is from an anonymized IP, and allow assigning users a modifier for anonymous posts (one more criterium in addition to already existing ones).
Anything that involves a non-anonymous IP breaks anonymity and can lead to the Goons With Guns coming and requesting the logs.
If they allowed 100% of the Tor connections, the comments would be flooded with more ascii goatse pics, GNAA Postings, tubgirl links, and all kinds of wonderful trollish crap. It already is bad to a certain degree, and that's with a publicly moderated rating system and IP filtering already in place.
Easy remedy. Do not ban posts from tor IPs. Just indicate in its title that it was posted through anonymizing service, and let the moderating system deal with it.
Maybe, for improved results, have more heavy tests against bots for such connections.
Did Ford ever walk around, mouth full of how innovative he is (with exception of implementing the assembly line method), while building on others' ideas?
I'm the last person to tell somebody else what words to use and what not to use,...
We see.
I wish to suggest that you keep in mind that the Internet is a big place, and there are some folk out there who will have hurt feelings every time you use a slang derivitive of their ethnic background to describe getting ripped off.
Ummm... don't they, at least partially, have to thank their ancestors for that? Aren't other people insulted by other things online - from porn to political opinions - should we refrain from these too? Isn't it time to finally put the failed concept of political correctness into the trashcan of history?
On the other hand, people were here before airplanes for milleni and survived. If you mind cellphones so much, why would you want to fly with them around?
For improved results you can move to an area without cellular coverage - but then you'll still have those pesky chattering Thuraya users...
But you have to get only one copy for your company. You then use it with some VBA macro to automatically convert all your legacy.doc and.xml files to the new shiny XML, then import them with OpenOffice. Then - farewell, MSFT!
Actually, they have copy protection in some books. When you print a book in black ink on red paper, when you photocopy it all you get is a black sheet.
Scan it. Run the bitmaps through a script that converts the page to grayscale and then normalizes it - voila, black/white. Print on a laser printer. Most of this can be scripted, so you have only to flip pages, if your scanner can't do it automatically.
Good thing I don't live in the States. Or have any desire to visit.
You don't have to go there. They are all eager to expand their policies to you, wherever you are - some places they conquer, other they strongarm through trade policies and international "threaties".
Are you not happy to comply? Then you must be a terrorist.
Why is it that all other goods or services folks reasonably expect to pay and accept restrictions on what they can do with it.
You mean, like playing it only on licensed players running only on some operating systems and not on anything embedded at all because the market was too small to bother? Not able to copy a song to a car radio and then retrieve it back after somebody broke/lost the original medium? Not able to do $function as the makers of the $whatever didn't think the consumers should have that much power over it (see DVD players that refuse to obey fast forward over certain parts of the disk)? Not able to buy $whatever on another continent (see DVD zoning)?
Enough, or should I continue?
New frontiers have always, always been driven by the desire for exploration backed by the promise of commerce.
New frontiers have always been driven by the desire of killing other people more efficiently and from longer distance. A lot of hightech stuff came from military research.
Then the private business comes and parasites on taxpayer-funded research once its fruit gets declassified, rediscovered elsewhere, or leaked by eg. espionage.
Fast breeder reactors use these fast neutrons directly to create plutonium.
I thought breeder reactors use plutonium as fuel, and uranium as shields/reflectors? The neutrons captured by U238 then transform it to Pu239 (and later Pu240, which does not make neutrons when split so it is unsuitable for weapons) (well, U239, which then undergoes two spontanneous fissions to Np239 and then Pu239). Am I wrong?
How is the fuel orientated to minimize the effect of gammas heating the fuel?
Isn't gamma heating relevant more for thermonuclear weapons? I don't think the effects of gamma heating are fast enough to affect the fission stage; even then, you can't orient the fuel other way than strictly symmetrically. (And yes, that's why there's the uranium shield between the fission stage and the fusion stage, and why it is perpendicular to the fission stage.) Please correct me if I am wrong, my memory is rusty.
I'm sure you and the rest of your neo-conservative fascist mouth-breathing ilk would love it if people with ideologies slightly different from yours just ran away, but sorry...we're not going to make it that easy for you.
They don't really mean it. The true face of "take it or leave it" proclaimers shown during the Viet Nam war; remember their rapid change of opinion when people started leaving for Canada instead of opting for being drafted and sent to the meat-grinder.
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Waste of ammo. Hang them, you can reuse the rope.
No big problem, you can extract the info from the original to a text or xml file, and then merge it back after doing the edits. This can be automated, just needs a commandline utility capable of extracting the EXIF data to an external file, and then merging them back.
This can also be used for easy faking that the pics are from your camera.
Wait few more years, the situation there will change. There are already prototype e-ink displays on the market now; still black&white, but this is doomed to improve.
Two words: power trips.
Few years.
Then a full war escalates. There are many ways around this - open-source graphics software, various hacks confusing the closed-source software or directly tweaking its code. Then the protection code moves into drivers. People switch to less restrictive hardware vendors. Then it gets mandated by law to have it in the drivers. Hacked illegal versions of drivers start appearing like mushrooms after a warm rain - both for the scanners and the printers, together with the effective equivalents of shift-key and felt-tip marker hacks common in the world of restricted music today.
Then the copyright infringement gets the same handling as drugs, together with armed raids and assets forfeiture plus some more stuff the Patriot Act is really for, and things will become really messy. With the difference that a xeroxed photograph can not be detected by a piss test, huge disk space suitable for unpacked high-quality home DV movies suitable as excellent steganography containers, and all other necessary elements of hightech war between the Laws and the Citizens.
Meanwhile the lawsuits and jails swallowing the best minds of the nation will effectively freeze a good deal of civilian innovation in the North America, and perhaps in the EU, backed by the soundtrack of laughs and cheers from rapidly developing China, South America, and Africa.
Which brings the question of long-term storage of digital media.
Re fading colors, hopefully there will be scanners capable of multispectral imaging - with much higher grade of colors sensitive to than just red-green-blue. By measuring the spectrum of each pixel, it should be then possible to reconstruct the amount of the CMYK inks on them, and then calculate back the CMYK image. 50 years is a long time for imaging technology.
It is also fairly possible that in 50 years we will all be parts of cracked glassy slabs made of our cities, and the slightly glowing cockroaches taking our place will have entirely different worries than the durability of color pictures.
Meanwhile, hopefully, there will be yet another next generation of color printers on the market. Compare what was available 5 years ago and what is available now, for how much, on the common civilian lower-cost market. Kill off the professional services, and ink cartridges with low-fading ink will appear together with demand for them. There are enough Chinese manufacturers wanting a piece of the pie.
The adversary won't win. By destroying the middlemen over whom they had at least a shade of control, they will lose control entirely. And it will serve them well.
Meanwhile enjoy the life in the Land of the Fre^H^H^HLawyers.
This opens a solution for all these problems: just forge the permission form. Sure, it can be a crime, but unless somebody notices - which is unlikely if there is no commercial use that could serve as a tip-off for some rat - you'll get away with it.
You maybe do not need them at all. Just a combination of the OCRable letters (or a similar measure) with indication in the title of the post that the post is from an anonymized IP, and allow assigning users a modifier for anonymous posts (one more criterium in addition to already existing ones).
Anything that involves a non-anonymous IP breaks anonymity and can lead to the Goons With Guns coming and requesting the logs.
Easy remedy. Do not ban posts from tor IPs. Just indicate in its title that it was posted through anonymizing service, and let the moderating system deal with it.
Maybe, for improved results, have more heavy tests against bots for such connections.
Did Ford ever walk around, mouth full of how innovative he is (with exception of implementing the assembly line method), while building on others' ideas?
We see.
I wish to suggest that you keep in mind that the Internet is a big place, and there are some folk out there who will have hurt feelings every time you use a slang derivitive of their ethnic background to describe getting ripped off.
Ummm... don't they, at least partially, have to thank their ancestors for that? Aren't other people insulted by other things online - from porn to political opinions - should we refrain from these too? Isn't it time to finally put the failed concept of political correctness into the trashcan of history?
For improved results you can move to an area without cellular coverage - but then you'll still have those pesky chattering Thuraya users...
Your comment would hold water if there'd be a functional free market with real existing competition and educated consumers.
Yes. He ruined it for everybody. It's because of sites like this one why Adams can't be expected to write any further sequels anymore.
Presuming you get cheap bandwidth, why not use the device as just a terminal, without much processing on its own?
But you have to get only one copy for your company. You then use it with some VBA macro to automatically convert all your legacy .doc and .xml files to the new shiny XML, then import them with OpenOffice. Then - farewell, MSFT!
Scan it. Run the bitmaps through a script that converts the page to grayscale and then normalizes it - voila, black/white. Print on a laser printer. Most of this can be scripted, so you have only to flip pages, if your scanner can't do it automatically.
Copy protection doesn't work.
You don't have to go there. They are all eager to expand their policies to you, wherever you are - some places they conquer, other they strongarm through trade policies and international "threaties".
Are you not happy to comply? Then you must be a terrorist.
You mean, like playing it only on licensed players running only on some operating systems and not on anything embedded at all because the market was too small to bother? Not able to copy a song to a car radio and then retrieve it back after somebody broke/lost the original medium? Not able to do $function as the makers of the $whatever didn't think the consumers should have that much power over it (see DVD players that refuse to obey fast forward over certain parts of the disk)? Not able to buy $whatever on another continent (see DVD zoning)? Enough, or should I continue?
Try dd_rescue, it is designed specifically for reading from media littered with read errors.
New frontiers have always been driven by the desire of killing other people more efficiently and from longer distance. A lot of hightech stuff came from military research.
Then the private business comes and parasites on taxpayer-funded research once its fruit gets declassified, rediscovered elsewhere, or leaked by eg. espionage.
I thought breeder reactors use plutonium as fuel, and uranium as shields/reflectors? The neutrons captured by U238 then transform it to Pu239 (and later Pu240, which does not make neutrons when split so it is unsuitable for weapons) (well, U239, which then undergoes two spontanneous fissions to Np239 and then Pu239). Am I wrong?
How is the fuel orientated to minimize the effect of gammas heating the fuel?
Isn't gamma heating relevant more for thermonuclear weapons? I don't think the effects of gamma heating are fast enough to affect the fission stage; even then, you can't orient the fuel other way than strictly symmetrically. (And yes, that's why there's the uranium shield between the fission stage and the fusion stage, and why it is perpendicular to the fission stage.) Please correct me if I am wrong, my memory is rusty.
They don't really mean it. The true face of "take it or leave it" proclaimers shown during the Viet Nam war; remember their rapid change of opinion when people started leaving for Canada instead of opting for being drafted and sent to the meat-grinder.