This is known as a perceptual hash. We have a perceptual audio hash in pHash, my open source software project that will tell you how similar two media files are to each other. It also features an indexing system to find the best matches from a sample audio clip, a la Shazam.
These algorithms are not new by any means, although this patent goes a bit further than simply matching audio samples.
To take advantage of the change in your Firefox search bar on Linux, edit the ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/search.json file and change all URL references to Google to "https" where xxxxxx is the random string created by Firefox. I assume it's similar for other operating systems.
While this is a step i nthe right direction, I believe only the results of your search are encrypted, not the search string itself. Perhaps Google should make the search a POST and not a GET. That should solve the problem of your search string appearing in the URL.
Their SHA1 hashing method will not be sufficient to detect most copyright infringements. Even one bit change in a file will result in a completely different SHA1 hash.
I am the creator of pHash, which is well suited for this type of similarity search. The hashes do not need to be identical in order to detect duplicate or similar files, and similar files will have hashes that are "close" to one another.
This is really what they should be using.
This seems like a good time to pump my own open source project: pHash.
pHash is a perceptual hashing library that computes hashes for audio, video and image files, with text and PDF hashing coming soon.
We use an algorithm similar to YouTube's audio fingerprinting method but we do not only take into account the first 30 seconds. Although, it's impossible to tell from this basic test whether their algorithm truly only looks at the first 30 seconds, or if the algorithm considers them to be different audio files. If the song is only 1 minute in duration, and 30 seconds is blank, is that really the same audio file as the full 1 minute version? At some point the audio files are not really the same anymore, although the perceptual hashes should be somewhat close to each other.
Please give pHash a try. We could use some feedback from the OSS community and would appreciate it greatly.
This seems like a good time to promote my new open source project, pHash. It is a perceptual hash library under the GPLv3 that will eventually be able to do all the things this commercial service does. Please join if you have DSP, digital imaging experience or strong mathematics background. We could use more volunteers!
Plants love urine if it is diluted with water at between 5-10:1. Seriously. I have been using it on all of my plants in an effort to cut down costs on fertilizer and to reduce toilet flushes. Urine contains almost all nutrients that plants need: nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and lots of micronutrients and B vitamins. My plants are flourishing on the stuff.
Let me correct that for you: Get the google quint-band iphone with GSM (700Mhz, 850 MHz, 900Mhz, 1.8Ghz, 1.9Ghz), bluetooth, cameraphone with automatic youtube and picasa updates.
Eric Schmidt is on Apple's board of directors after all.
Watch for Apple rebranding these and replacing their current line up of LCDs. Apple is a huge Samsung investor and undoubtedly has some say in the direction of product lines. And we all know Apple is usually the first to switch to new standards.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Downloading copyrighted works is just as illegal as sharing them by uploading. Downloading violates the copyright holder's exclusive right to reproduce the work as downloading is necessarily reproducing the work. Uploading is illegal due to the exclusive distribution clause in 17 U.S. S 106. I suggest you read it thoroughly.
Remember when IBM (or their employee(s)) were spray painting Linux ads on sidewalks? I suredo. IBM was ordered to pay a fine as well as perform community service. I have a feeling that this case will end up the same.
Actually you can purchase any items you wish - justbe sure to use a credit card. Your credit card company protects you 100% in the case of fraudulent transactions. Never get screwed again - use a credit card.
What I'd like to see is an HDTV PCI card that just works under Linux. I know there is pcHDTV, which ATI's model is competing with, but there are no Linux HDTV cards that can do over the air, cable and satellite HDTV. When that comes out I will buy it in a second.
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This is known as a perceptual hash. We have a perceptual audio hash in pHash, my open source software project that will tell you how similar two media files are to each other. It also features an indexing system to find the best matches from a sample audio clip, a la Shazam. These algorithms are not new by any means, although this patent goes a bit further than simply matching audio samples.
To take advantage of the change in your Firefox search bar on Linux, edit the ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/search.json file and change all URL references to Google to "https" where xxxxxx is the random string created by Firefox. I assume it's similar for other operating systems.
While this is a step i nthe right direction, I believe only the results of your search are encrypted, not the search string itself. Perhaps Google should make the search a POST and not a GET. That should solve the problem of your search string appearing in the URL.
Or you can simply use my wonderful open source library called pHash.
Their SHA1 hashing method will not be sufficient to detect most copyright infringements. Even one bit change in a file will result in a completely different SHA1 hash. I am the creator of pHash, which is well suited for this type of similarity search. The hashes do not need to be identical in order to detect duplicate or similar files, and similar files will have hashes that are "close" to one another. This is really what they should be using.
1) Ask them, are you a girl?
2) Have you always been a girl?
3) If not, can you keep a secret?
Works for me ;)
I'd want to see the source code for this thing. I am sceptical due to the whole roadside breathalyzer court case that is still ongoing.
It has nothing to do with the blue color but rather the chalk crystals are too sharp for the ants to cross without it puncturing their exoskeleton.
This seems like a good time to pump my own open source project: pHash. pHash is a perceptual hashing library that computes hashes for audio, video and image files, with text and PDF hashing coming soon. We use an algorithm similar to YouTube's audio fingerprinting method but we do not only take into account the first 30 seconds. Although, it's impossible to tell from this basic test whether their algorithm truly only looks at the first 30 seconds, or if the algorithm considers them to be different audio files. If the song is only 1 minute in duration, and 30 seconds is blank, is that really the same audio file as the full 1 minute version? At some point the audio files are not really the same anymore, although the perceptual hashes should be somewhat close to each other. Please give pHash a try. We could use some feedback from the OSS community and would appreciate it greatly.
Do Fords even go up to 80?
640K should be enough for anybody. ;)
This seems like a good time to promote my new open source project, pHash. It is a perceptual hash library under the GPLv3 that will eventually be able to do all the things this commercial service does. Please join if you have DSP, digital imaging experience or strong mathematics background. We could use more volunteers!
Plants love urine if it is diluted with water at between 5-10:1. Seriously. I have been using it on all of my plants in an effort to cut down costs on fertilizer and to reduce toilet flushes. Urine contains almost all nutrients that plants need: nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and lots of micronutrients and B vitamins. My plants are flourishing on the stuff.
From last year: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/0350218
Let me correct that for you:
Get the google quint-band iphone with GSM (700Mhz, 850 MHz, 900Mhz, 1.8Ghz, 1.9Ghz), bluetooth, cameraphone with automatic youtube and picasa updates.
Eric Schmidt is on Apple's board of directors after all.
Watch for Apple rebranding these and replacing their current line up of LCDs. Apple is a huge Samsung investor and undoubtedly has some say in the direction of product lines. And we all know Apple is usually the first to switch to new standards.
Is somebody dyslexic?
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Downloading copyrighted works is just as illegal as sharing them by uploading. Downloading violates the copyright holder's exclusive right to reproduce the work as downloading is necessarily reproducing the work. Uploading is illegal due to the exclusive distribution clause in 17 U.S. S 106. I suggest you read it thoroughly.
You can see the auction at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5947720145&rd=1
Currently the selling price is over $15,000. Not a bad chunk of change.
All on one page for easy reading and printing link
Remember when IBM (or their employee(s)) were spray painting Linux ads on sidewalks? I sure do. IBM was ordered to pay a fine as well as perform community service. I have a feeling that this case will end up the same.
Yes, there is: http://www.iwill.net/zmax/zmaxdp_1.asp
Actually you can purchase any items you wish - justbe sure to use a credit card. Your credit card company protects you 100% in the case of fraudulent transactions. Never get screwed again - use a credit card.
What I'd like to see is an HDTV PCI card that just works under Linux. I know there is pcHDTV, which ATI's model is competing with, but there are no Linux HDTV cards that can do over the air, cable and satellite HDTV. When that comes out I will buy it in a second.
I don't know about that - Windows NT brought down America's USS Yorktown in 1998. Take a look http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.h tm
Perhaps this time they will release fully functional drivers for their MPEG4 hardware acceleration chip...