On their property yes. But if I were a tenant there, and it wasnt explicitly prohibited in my leasing agreement, how can this be enforced? Can they tell me not to listen to the radio while in my room (dorm)? No. Can they tell me not to use my cell phone in my room? No. Why should they tell me that I cannot make use of other areas of the spectrum?
Call me an idiot but they found the lightest planet yet discovered and they are measuring it as a multiple of the Rarth mass. This means the lightest planet yet discovered is many times heavier than earth, and thus not the lightest planet. Can anyone with more knowledge on the subject explain this to me?
Disney is in the process of donating all seven patents associated with the new air launch technology to a non-profit organization so these patents can be licensed to other pyrotechnic providers'.
Its nice to see a company using patents correctly, and donating them to an organization who oversees the pyrotechnic industry.
IANAP(hysicist)... Do these mesons occur in nature? If not, how can it be claimed a new "discovery." In the same manner, I can glue a poptart to a can of coke and "discover" a new product that has the edible goodness of poptarts and the drinkable properties of coke.
why dont they outlaw the speaker. After all, anything that comes out of a speaker can be recorded and reproduced without limitations.
So what comes next? we can only look at a shiny new CD instead of playing? but wait, looking at a disc can give people the opportunity to memorize the bit patterns and recreate it. Your eyes oppose the DMCA. gouge them out... quick
interesting sig. First one assumes that the message translates to "This message written using the Dvorak keyboard layout. However, the 'E' correctly used at the end of the word assumed to be 'the' and in the beginning of the word 'keyboard' is also used at the end of that word supposedly representing the 'D' letter. The period in the middle of the word assumed to be 'message' translates to 'E' however we can see that natural occurances of the 'E' character appear elsewhere and the period also appears at the end of a sentance correctly. From this i can draw one of two conclusions:
This message was NOT written using a Dvorak keyboard
(or) The message more appropriately translates to "This messagd writtdn using thd Dvorak kdyboard layoute"
You are correct in your understanding of watermarking. However, one of the main requirements of a good watermarking system is that the watermark should be preserved in the presence of image modification (compression, cropping, rotating, etc.) This means that many watermarks themselves are not implanted once, but repeated many times throughout the frame. There is currently a lot of research in the field of watermarking because it is a difficult problem to solve, and the ramifications could be great. (I recall seeing a slashdot article where a man was arrested for pirating movies because the movie studios watermarked each screener DVD differently and were able to trace the internet release to its source.) Some watermarks operate in the frequency domain (such as the fourier transform, or discrete cosine transform DCT) which recognize patterns in the image, and describe the image as a summation of waves. Applying a watermark in the frequency domain means one bit worth of data changed is distributed throughout every other pixel in that row/column of image.
In summary: Im absoultely positive the MPAA is using watermarking techniques, and I am sure that they have put tons of research money/time into defining watermarks that will survive the MPEG or DivX encoding algorithms.
And btw:
A serial number in a random frame can be blotted out easily or the entire frame can be cut out by someone compressing the video stream to an mpeg or divx.
Quick question to those well versed in the theory of evolution:
I think i have an informal understanding of the Theory of evolution, but i cannot for the life of me understand the evolution from asexual creatures to sexual creatures. Evolution (or maybe im just confusing this with natural selection, or they might be the same) says (roughly, IANAevolutionist...) that a creature with a beneficial mutation will be more likely to survive and prosper, and that mutation will become a new feature of the species. Now... at what point did a small creature "mutate" himself a male reproductive organ and say to himself "ya know i think ill stick this in that other freshly mutated hole, and we'll have ourselves some kids" Am I to believe that this happened and somehow it was so beneficial to the new species that they prospered more than the organisms that were reproducing asexually?
Lets all meet and burn (pinky to mouth) 1.44*8 million bits. Bring 1 DS/DD floppy disk to the corner of RIAA ave, and MPAA street and well burn them there. Maybe the toxic fumes will take out some execs:)
The issue is not in the licensing of the music. My concern is more in the peddling of new technologies to ensure their futile copy prevention measures will be implemented. Now I must buy new descrambling radios for the home and the car if i choose to listen to the free media provided.
To summarize, I agree that the music rights are undoubtedly owned by the RIAA and brodcasted freely by the radio stations. However no matter what new DRM enabled player _I_ must buy to access the supposed free content, the new standards will impose no negative effect on music piracy. "if i can hear it, i can copy it" (if i so choose to break the law), and until they start forcefully marketing DRM enabled speakers and ears, the (legal) consumer will pay double. (once for the media, once for the player.)
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I dont see why people in US ( and those who are not )need to force there lack of morals on me. (this is not an attack, merely a response. I do not have a problem with those who view these materials, however...)I do not view sex sites and detest when i view a mailbox and recieve 200 new emails with nothing but porn/viagra spam.
SexSpam exists. So be it. I cant change that.
People choose to look at it. So be it. I cant change that.
The only reason I applaud attempted resolutions is so that one day in the future, the people who are not interested in it (myself, my young children and relatives) can easily avoid it.
I think the title hackers is appropriate unless the NSA is reverse engineering to determine the super secret l33t registration code to unlock the full features of the cadets system.
AFAIK, hackers analyze systems for holes and find innovative ways to exploit them.
(and then theres the skr1pt k1dd13s in a class of their own)
Moral of the story: if your gonna freak out about naming conventions, make sure you're right first.
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How is this different than any other application for downloading music?
On their property yes. But if I were a tenant there, and it wasnt explicitly prohibited in my leasing agreement, how can this be enforced? Can they tell me not to listen to the radio while in my room (dorm)? No. Can they tell me not to use my cell phone in my room? No. Why should they tell me that I cannot make use of other areas of the spectrum?
Call me an idiot but they found the lightest planet yet discovered and they are measuring it as a multiple of the Rarth mass. This means the lightest planet yet discovered is many times heavier than earth, and thus not the lightest planet. Can anyone with more knowledge on the subject explain this to me?
Well, it was fun for the first 20 or so, but now it's really annoying. Even people I just remotely know are sending me this stuff.
What's your email address?
not safe for work.
but can it search my gmail?!
Why would you need a sniper rifle if you are 15-30 ft away from the target?
Comparing IP address portability to "driving a remote control car on mars" is like comparing apples to the 1969 Shelby Mustang series of cars.
The big news is not in the compressed air:
Disney is in the process of donating all seven patents associated with the new air launch technology to a non-profit organization so these patents can be licensed to other pyrotechnic providers'.
Its nice to see a company using patents correctly, and donating them to an organization who oversees the pyrotechnic industry.
If you've ever been a victim of "WhenU" you'd know that never prompts you to click yes.
IANAP(hysicist) ... Do these mesons occur in nature? If not, how can it be claimed a new "discovery." In the same manner, I can glue a poptart to a can of coke and "discover" a new product that has the edible goodness of poptarts and the drinkable properties of coke.
shaddup. your not welcome here....
waiting for the 20 second timer....
*muzac*
why dont they outlaw the speaker. After all, anything that comes out of a speaker can be recorded and reproduced without limitations.
So what comes next? we can only look at a shiny new CD instead of playing? but wait, looking at a disc can give people the opportunity to memorize the bit patterns and recreate it. Your eyes oppose the DMCA. gouge them out... quick
Thcs m.ssage wrikken fsing tje Dvorat teyboare payouk.
interesting sig. First one assumes that the message translates to "This message written using the Dvorak keyboard layout. However, the 'E' correctly used at the end of the word assumed to be 'the' and in the beginning of the word 'keyboard' is also used at the end of that word supposedly representing the 'D' letter. The period in the middle of the word assumed to be 'message' translates to 'E' however we can see that natural occurances of the 'E' character appear elsewhere and the period also appears at the end of a sentance correctly. From this i can draw one of two conclusions:
I do believe this was the slashdot article refernced in the post. tada!
You are correct in your understanding of watermarking. However, one of the main requirements of a good watermarking system is that the watermark should be preserved in the presence of image modification (compression, cropping, rotating, etc.) This means that many watermarks themselves are not implanted once, but repeated many times throughout the frame. There is currently a lot of research in the field of watermarking because it is a difficult problem to solve, and the ramifications could be great. (I recall seeing a slashdot article where a man was arrested for pirating movies because the movie studios watermarked each screener DVD differently and were able to trace the internet release to its source.) Some watermarks operate in the frequency domain (such as the fourier transform, or discrete cosine transform DCT) which recognize patterns in the image, and describe the image as a summation of waves. Applying a watermark in the frequency domain means one bit worth of data changed is distributed throughout every other pixel in that row/column of image.
In summary: Im absoultely positive the MPAA is using watermarking techniques, and I am sure that they have put tons of research money/time into defining watermarks that will survive the MPEG or DivX encoding algorithms.
And btw:
A serial number in a random frame can be blotted out easily or the entire frame can be cut out by someone compressing the video stream to an mpeg or divx.
Quick question to those well versed in the theory of evolution:
I think i have an informal understanding of the Theory of evolution, but i cannot for the life of me understand the evolution from asexual creatures to sexual creatures. Evolution (or maybe im just confusing this with natural selection, or they might be the same) says (roughly, IANAevolutionist...) that a creature with a beneficial mutation will be more likely to survive and prosper, and that mutation will become a new feature of the species. Now... at what point did a small creature "mutate" himself a male reproductive organ and say to himself "ya know i think ill stick this in that other freshly mutated hole, and we'll have ourselves some kids" Am I to believe that this happened and somehow it was so beneficial to the new species that they prospered more than the organisms that were reproducing asexually?
i first read the headline and assumed it was a new tactic by the group 'BYU' to forcefully quiet the complaints of geeks and nerds everywhere!
must be one of those days i guess.
Lets all meet and burn (pinky to mouth) 1.44*8 million bits. Bring 1 DS/DD floppy disk to the corner of RIAA ave, and MPAA street and well burn them there. Maybe the toxic fumes will take out some execs :)
The issue is not in the licensing of the music. My concern is more in the peddling of new technologies to ensure their futile copy prevention measures will be implemented. Now I must buy new descrambling radios for the home and the car if i choose to listen to the free media provided.
To summarize, I agree that the music rights are undoubtedly owned by the RIAA and brodcasted freely by the radio stations. However no matter what new DRM enabled player _I_ must buy to access the supposed free content, the new standards will impose no negative effect on music piracy. "if i can hear it, i can copy it" (if i so choose to break the law), and until they start forcefully marketing DRM enabled speakers and ears, the (legal) consumer will pay double. (once for the media, once for the player.) </RANT>
I dont see why people in US ( and those who are not )need to force there lack of morals on me. (this is not an attack, merely a response. I do not have a problem with those who view these materials, however...)I do not view sex sites and detest when i view a mailbox and recieve 200 new emails with nothing but porn/viagra spam.
SexSpam exists. So be it. I cant change that.
People choose to look at it. So be it. I cant change that.
The only reason I applaud attempted resolutions is so that one day in the future, the people who are not interested in it (myself, my young children and relatives) can easily avoid it.
the answer: the RIAA would find no fault with you downloading a movie over international waters...
However, the MPAA would rip you a new one when you touched down at $AIRPORT.
... to India
I think the title hackers is appropriate unless the NSA is reverse engineering to determine the super secret l33t registration code to unlock the full features of the cadets system.
AFAIK, hackers analyze systems for holes and find innovative ways to exploit them.
(and then theres the skr1pt k1dd13s in a class of their own)
Moral of the story: if your gonna freak out about naming conventions, make sure you're right first.
this was at a party? typical example of slashdot effect on people :)