Really? Because I would expect to see the musicvideo's for the band "Lush", which was formed in 1987, broken up in 1988, reformed in 1989 and was still active in 1994, when some cosmetics company used the same name for their brand.
So your plan for highly compressing video is to basically send the book or script the movie was based on?
Let's see if it works: "As he rested his heavy head unto the palms of his hands, his sobbing voice continuously uttered the words 'Why? Why do these idiots exist?'". I don't think it conveys quite the total sense of dismay I intended.
AI analysing video material for concepts/objects/ideas.
How much description would the AI need to produce to get across the intended concept/object/idea?
Google for the very first image of something as simple as a spoon and try describing it in enough detail that is could be recreated in an image that is unlike all the other images of spoons. You'd probably end up with more data than simply sending the image as an uncompressed bitmap.
The only think a government has to fear, is dissent within it's military ranks. There are few coup attempts by non-military groups and even less succesful attempts.
The US constitution was written in a time where both citizens and government had access to roughly the same level of weaponry. There were no tanks, bombers or drones, there was no fast communication or transportation of armed forces.
If one were to draft a new constitution in this day and age, you would look a bit silly for arguing a civil militia with handguns and old military surplus equipment could keep a well-armed government in check.
You know how old-media companies always go on about how copying media is somehow "theft", even though we all know it's not? Well, the problem with digital authentication keys is similar; it can get copied without you losing anything. Attaching authentication to a physical item that actually CAN get stolen changes the game dramatically. It's a single point of failure that will give a false sense of security.
If Russia and/or China would have decrypted messages, they would most certainly not tell the rest of the world. Similarly, they wouldn't publish it if they managed to locate enemy spies. If somehow, this DID happen, the US government would most certainly not publish the fact that they knew.
Information is valuable. Information the enemy thinks you don't have is invaluable.
The fact that this is published tells me it's most likely not true.
It's quite common for companies to make very reasonable assumptions that most of their customers will not be using their full bandwidth, unattended, 24x7.
Those assumptions aren't reasonable if they then start complaining about that too many of their customers do exactly that.
It could be fun trying to follow a recipe literally, trying to misinterpret the recipe as much as possible within the bounds of the literal interpretation, then change the recipe until it works.
Could you pretend you had a talk with another person, whenever all you'd had was a telephone conversation with that person ? No, you couldn't. Having an actual talk implies the visibility of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language, as well as the two of you being in the same acoustical environment, something even a very good video & audio recording can not provide. Hence, having an actual talk requires physical presence.
Assuming that to be true....
I am saying
No, you're not. Because we're not physically present, so you're not talking.
I'm guessing shorter chains make it more likely for the donors involved to agree, as it's less "anonymous". Also; why make these chains any longer than necessary. At the end of the day though, these chains should be as long as necessary, and I'm thoroughly impressed by the organisational skills involved here and the willingness of the donors to go through with it.
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It's an off-by-one error.
You're off by one.
Really? Because I would expect to see the musicvideo's for the band "Lush", which was formed in 1987, broken up in 1988, reformed in 1989 and was still active in 1994, when some cosmetics company used the same name for their brand.
So your plan for highly compressing video is to basically send the book or script the movie was based on?
Let's see if it works: "As he rested his heavy head unto the palms of his hands, his sobbing voice continuously uttered the words 'Why? Why do these idiots exist?'". I don't think it conveys quite the total sense of dismay I intended.
AI analysing video material for concepts/objects/ideas.
How much description would the AI need to produce to get across the intended concept/object/idea?
Google for the very first image of something as simple as a spoon and try describing it in enough detail that is could be recreated in an image that is unlike all the other images of spoons. You'd probably end up with more data than simply sending the image as an uncompressed bitmap.
There are certainly plenty of "repeat" characters in different contexts.
For example the math alphanumerics: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/...
at what point will it be murder for a company to discontinue a product line
At a point likely atleast several centuries (if not millenia) in the future.
The only think a government has to fear, is dissent within it's military ranks.
There are few coup attempts by non-military groups and even less succesful attempts.
The US constitution was written in a time where both citizens and government had access to roughly the same level of weaponry.
There were no tanks, bombers or drones, there was no fast communication or transportation of armed forces.
If one were to draft a new constitution in this day and age, you would look a bit silly for arguing a civil militia with handguns and old military surplus equipment could keep a well-armed government in check.
There are still a couple of boooobies bugs, but nothing a couple of big investments couldn't fix flange.
Seems to work just fine.
Now we just need a device that lets us control our minds.
Because checksums can't possibly ever be hacked!
They also reported feeling more energetic and more positive afterwards.
So basically the same effect as taking a dozen XTC pills...
There may have been some guilt from putting off work or studying [...], but the amusement they got [...] more than made up for it.
... with pretty much the same result.
Sounds healthy to me.
You know how old-media companies always go on about how copying media is somehow "theft", even though we all know it's not?
Well, the problem with digital authentication keys is similar; it can get copied without you losing anything.
Attaching authentication to a physical item that actually CAN get stolen changes the game dramatically.
It's a single point of failure that will give a false sense of security.
Even for analog cables, there were plenty far cheaper cable brands that offer the same or better measurable quality.
To me, they're all just a bunch of $500 wooden volume knobs.
Hmmm, that's an interresting point of view, european court.
Do you have a website where I may comment on this?
Why are you posting as AC if you have true freedom of speech?
So now that the government is making life a little less secure, does that mean we also get back some liberty?
If Russia and/or China would have decrypted messages, they would most certainly not tell the rest of the world.
Similarly, they wouldn't publish it if they managed to locate enemy spies.
If somehow, this DID happen, the US government would most certainly not publish the fact that they knew.
Information is valuable.
Information the enemy thinks you don't have is invaluable.
The fact that this is published tells me it's most likely not true.
Fucking geek poseurs like you make me puke.
Why are you really puking, because you think it's cool to puke on such things?
Realistically, what would you expect him to do about it? (Any why would it have to be covert?)
It's quite common for companies to make very reasonable assumptions that most of their customers will not be using their full bandwidth, unattended, 24x7.
Those assumptions aren't reasonable if they then start complaining about that too many of their customers do exactly that.
It could be fun trying to follow a recipe literally, trying to misinterpret the recipe as much as possible within the bounds of the literal interpretation, then change the recipe until it works.
How would they know it's impossible unless they've atleast researched the possibility of doing so?
Could you pretend you had a talk with another person, whenever all you'd had was a telephone conversation with that person ? No, you couldn't. Having an actual talk implies the visibility of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language, as well as the two of you being in the same acoustical environment, something even a very good video & audio recording can not provide. Hence, having an actual talk requires physical presence.
Assuming that to be true....
I am saying
No, you're not. Because we're not physically present, so you're not talking.
Either way, I'm not listening.
The others who mis-times shouldn't be in jail because THEY were lucky enough to fail.
Somebody who fails to steal something isn't a thief, doesn't mean somebody who is a thief should get to walk too.
I'm guessing shorter chains make it more likely for the donors involved to agree, as it's less "anonymous".
Also; why make these chains any longer than necessary.
At the end of the day though, these chains should be as long as necessary, and I'm thoroughly impressed by the organisational skills involved here and the willingness of the donors to go through with it.