It looked to me like running the resulting jpeg raw data through a DCT and low pass filtering the larger "block" layers might produce a similar image. I'm sure If I have nothing better to do some day I'll give it a try (i.e. I hope someone else tries it).
My Nexus 7 2012 wasn't "bricked", but it now takes a LONG time to "wake up" when it's wifi has been shut down, and the tablet is all but unusable for minutes while it recovers. I've taken to "closing" all my applications when I'm done using them (which I've NEVER done), and it seems to help a little. It's the first update I've not been impressed with, and that I think I'd roll back if I could (I haven't checked if I can).
Britain is full of savages, who also happen to be Muslims, only they don't call them that, they call them "Asian militants".
It takes two to tango, matey. While I in no way condone extremism, whether they hide behind 'Islam' or 'Christianity' (or your variant of 'morality', whatever that is), there's always at least two sides to a conflict. Comments like yours only serve to stoke the fires and making it more difficult to find a solution. If we want to solve the problems, we need to take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure - how can we do that, if we constantly isult each other over petty differences?
At a minimum, your first statement "A" is incorrect. You should have said "Carbon dioxide provably has much stronger absorption bands in the infra-red wavelengths than Nitrogen, and Oxygen, but a lot less than water."
Water vapor is the single largest "greenhouse" gas in the atmosphere, and absorbs a large amount of energy in the infrared band compared to CO2. Mentioning incontestable facts, and then having the facts completely wrong doesn't help your argument.
I don't see why the robot is needed. A soldier could walk to where the known unmined area ends and fire this thingie.
It depends on the mine(s) and how they are triggered. It's quite possible for a mine "down the road" to trigger a series of mines back down the road/path when detonated.
I can't see the video (work BW block), but I assume they're moving the robot into position, at which point it fires a series of mine tripping explosives forward of it's position. If that's the case, the launch point could still be a mined location, even though the mine's fuse was further along the path. If a human was firing a similar weapon from the same place...one dead soldier, as opposed to a robot.
So, if I'm reading this right, the Standard Model assumes that cars and motorcycles are the same class of vehicle, correct? It's obvious that the Standard Model is broken if it fails on so fundamental of a level.
I don't have a clue why this argument keeps coming up. I've been with three providers in two jurisdictions, and when I actually bothered to do the math, Tivo was cheaper TCO in every case, and provided a better experience. Maybe different companies/locations have better pricing than where I live, or maybe people are just lazy. My current costing:
Verizon FIOS charges $20 for a HD DVR, that (feature wise) sucks compared to a Tivo HD (with $250 initial cost).
My Tivo HD fee is $99/year ($8.33 per month), plus the $2 cable card fee from FIOS, or about $11 per month. At $9 a month savings, a Tivo HD pays itself off in about 26 months. After that it's gravy. I lose "On Demand" from my provider but I get access to all the Amazon and Netflix on demand I want.
In my mind, given that the HW will likely last beyond 3 years, the ROI doesn't favor the cable company AT ALL. The only "problem" is this STUPID idea that it's better to pay more every frickin month than pay an up front cost up front (i.e. cell phone providers). The only thing that might tempt me away from Tivo is if I could get "Tivo Pick" functionality in my own "roll your own" (Myth, etc.) solution.
My carrier (Verizon FOIS) charges $20 for a HD DVR, that, quite frankly, is barely tolerable in terms of it's functionality compared to a Tivo HD. The "standard HD box" (no DVR) is about $13.
My Tivo HD costs me $8.33 per month ($99/year), plus the $2 cable card fee., or about $11 per month. At $9 a month, a $300 Tivo pays itself off in a little over 2.5 years. After that it's gravy. And all I've lost is "On Demand" from my provider, which quite frankly, sucks. Instead I get access to all the Amazon and Netflix on demand I could want (and I use the crap out of the Netflix stuff). Additionally I get all the home media features and SW provided. Should I care to I can download and/or archive recorded video, etc. In my mind, given that the HW will likely last beyond 3 years, the ROI doesn't favor the cable company AT ALL, esp. given that the quality and features of the Tivo unit exceed the cable offering. The only "problem" is the initial $300 outlay, but the cable company hits you with that in their monthly fee forever, as opposed to up front.
The ONLY thing FOIS had over Tivo was the multi-room DVR feature worked, and worked fairly well. Tivo definitely has room to improve in this area.
Nice post. I'd be interested in the Judge's reasoning, if he is using these four criteria. I know I'd look at it thusly:
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
I'd think it likely, given a standard file sharing scenario, that this would fall under "non-commercial" and also "non-educational", making it difficult to meet this criteria.
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
Here is the interesting one in my mind. The nature of the work is essentially digital, and digital "works" exist only as ones and zeros stored in some pattern on a storage device meant to store ones and zeros. A large amount of software exists to translate those works from an essentially useless pattern (in terms of human recognition) into a picture, video, audio, or textual representation that humans would find useful. The work in this form is what was historically protected (in my limited understanding). For myself, I'm undecided (maybe unclear is a better word) why protections designed to work (for the most part) on printed text have now been extend to "works" that have no inherent value, in representations that have zero cost to "copy". I suppose at this point we'd have to refer to the social contract implied in copyright. Either way, I'd think in this area there's some wiggle room for a defense, but it seems unlikely a lower court would entertain it.
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
No doubt the whole work, so this clearly lands in the non-fair-use category.
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
I'm sure the "value" of the work is somewhat reduced by this type of distribution in a first order sense (i.e. if the downloader would have otherwise purchased the work in question, which is an unknown). It's unclear at best if the higher order effects overcome this or not (I think I've seen stories about studys that show both cases). In any case, I'd think there's some room here for a fair use defense.
Given all that I guess you get very little of (1), none of (3), leaving most of the potential argument on (2) and (4). It would probably benefit me to read the proposed defense to see what the law-minders were thinking.
In his "rant" he finally gets to the real core of the issue:
In fact, publishers, authors and American copyright laws have long provided for free audio availability to the blind and the guild is all for technologies that expand that availability. (The federation, though, points out that blind readers can't independently use the Kindle 2's visual, on-screen controls.) But that doesn't mean Amazon should be able, without copyright-holders' participation, to pass that service on to everyone.
To this I say bullsh*t. I'm sorry, it's bad enough that you want to charge me the same damn price for an e-book as for a dead tree book, and then not give me the same rights with one as with the other*. Now you want to say that if I pay for a device with a particular function, I shouldn't be allowed to use it? I suppose I'm not allowed to read the damn book out loud now too? Or have someone ELSE read it to me out loud? 'Cause that's the BS you're trying to sell me, and dude, I'm not buying it.
If I pay for a (fictional) device to put dead tree books in, and it OCR's them and reads them out loud, am I suddenly not allowed to do that either? What a load of crap. If technology really IS making "performance art" (i.e. books on tape) obsolete, then guess what...your product isn't worth what it used to be. Live with it. Once I've paid for my copy I'm done...if you come back and tell me any more of this kind of crap I just won't bother buying your product in the future.
Ok, I'm gonna say it (again?) for the record: Season 2 of Enterprise sucked major donkey butt. The whole "expanse/temporal cold war" story line was completely out of line. By Season 3 though, they had started doing some good stories again, and it was unfortunate (in my mind) that it got canceled just as it was really starting to get good.
I purchased Bioshock on steam, and later found out I got the unexpected bonus of additional DRM. I'm willing to live with the DRM limits that steam itself imposes, but I DAMN WELL better not get any more than that. It ticks me off that now I have to research what games I can buy on steam to see if they come with more crap. If they do, I don't see any point to purchasing on steam when I can just buy the CD/DVD...which is exactly what I did for Fallout 3. At least I get the added benefit of having real install media since I'm forced to have this crap DRM anyway.
And yes, yes, I know I could download a crack/nocd/pirate copy. In general I prefer to be able to easily update my games (esp. newer releases, which are usually at least somewhat buggy) and not have to deal with getting a new crack/nocd after a patch. Is it so hard to just sell me the damn game and let me play it?
I played through Doom 3, and bought the add on pack. I started playing through the add-on (Resurrection of Evil?), but it just didn't do it for me, and is sitting somewhere collecting dust. In general, I think Doom 3 was perhaps more entertaining than 2, but not as good as the original. The elements put into Doom 3 tended to be overused, and the enemies were all variations on the same thing (with the same AI), just a little tougher to kill.
I did buy Quake 4, which played like what I was expecting from Doom 3. It had the feel of HL-2 (wasn't as good, imo, ymmv) in terms of better balancing, a storyline, and some squad based elements. It wasn't by any means great, but it was good and I've played through it several times since it was released, and find I still enjoy it.
I've heard these clouds may also contain one or more of the following: Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or Hydric acid.
Nasty stuff, see http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html for more scary information.
I cry BS. You have every right to "mention my boyfriend/partner/husband as casually as straight men...". What you don't have, is the right to say what you want and expect people to:
a) like it. b) agree with it. c) support it.
and I don't give a rat's ass what the protected (at least, in the USA, other contries have their own constitutions and laws, of course) speech in question is, the above will still apply.
If "equal rights" somehow means you'll be accepted in all circles for all of your views, then I think you're in for a disappointing life.
I'm a bit rusty on the particulars, so apologies in advance if I screw it up.
CDMA is Code Division Multiple Access. It works essentially by "transmitting" a signal correlated with a set of pseudo-random "codes", all of which are orthogonal. The orthogonal codes allows receivers to "decode" a signal of interest by decorelating the code from the data. This approach would probably work, up to the number of orthogonal codes used by the "watermark". The issue is coming up with a large enough set of said codes to be of use.
Direct, one-to-one, combinatorial attempts to destroy the watermark would likely fail, and given the pseudo-random nature of the codes, would likely only decrease the SNR by 3 dB or so. That said, I suspect there would be shift-and-average approaches that would likely destroy the watermarks for the same SNR "cost", which would probably make this approach easy to "defeat".
I own a Tivo (Series 1 no less) with lifetime, but I have to agree that the price of a "no ads listing" is overvalued at $13 a month. A subscription to "TV Guide" runs about $2.50 a month (if I did the math right). I'd certainly be willing to pay Tivo $3 a month for ad-enabled guide data, if that's really what's driving up the cost, over the current option of $13 a month.
Maybe that's what Tivo needs: a "cheaper" level of service that is supported with ad content.
I dunno, but I have FIOS cable with verizon, and the Motorola DVR they "rent" me for $20 a month is probably gonna hit the bricks this Christmas when I replace it with a Tivo HD. At the reduced $10 per month rate (Tivo fees+cable card fees) versus the $20 I pay verizon, it'll pay for itself in 2.5 years.
There's a large difference between 'not going to do anything about it' and 'tacit approval'.
and thought "No there's not." Tacit agreement is pretty much by definition, implied, unexpressed, or silent agreement. I'd say there's only a small difference between "silence" and "tacit approval".
Hmmm. I've become a frickin grammar nazi. In general though, I agree with your comment.:-)
My message to congress: engage brain before voting.
One would like to think that congresscritters have brains, but after 20 years as a voting American, I'm not convinced. To quote:
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
...and...
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. - Mark Twain
That's an open question. If you're broadcasting signals, what right do you have to tell me that I can't receive them?
I'd recommend you get yourself a nice x-band receiver and take a drive through Virginia. I'm sure you'll see that the government at least thinks there's no problem with them telling you want you can and can't receive.
Radar detectors (purely passive devices) have been illegal in many jurisdictions for many years.
The first thing to be said is that the "greenhouse effect" isn't something new, brought about by human activities. It's a natural phenomenon that has existed for as long as the Earth has had an atmosphere. All objects above zero degrees Kelvin radiate heat. As an object gets hotter, the peak of the frequency band that it radiates (where most of the radiated energy is emitted) shifts toward shorter wavelengths. Thus, a warm hotplate on a stove radiates mainly in the infrared band, which while invisible can still be felt as heat. As the hotplate is heated more, its radiation peak moves up into the visible region to red and then orange. The Sun radiates a lot of energy at ultraviolet wavelengths, shorter than the visible. The atmosphere is transparent to certain bands of this, which reach the Earth's surface and are absorbed. But since the Earth is a lot cooler than the Sun, this energy is reradiated not at ultraviolet wavelengths but at the much longer infrared, to which the atmosphere is not as transparent. Atmospheric gas molecules that consist of three or more atoms typically absorb energy at characteristic wavelengths within the infrared band, which heats them up, and consequently the atmosphere. Note that this excludes the diatomic gases N2 and O2 that form the bulk of the atmosphere (78 and 20 percent respectively), and also the monatomic traces, argon and neon.
This, then, defines the notorious "greenhouse gases" that are going to stifle the planet. The one that gets all the publicity is carbon dioxide, which human activities generate in five main ways: making cement (CO2 being driven out of the limestone used in the process); breathing; rearing animals; using wood (which once harvested, eventually decomposes one way or another); and burning fossil fuels. This translates into the release of about 3 million liters on average of CO2 per human per year, for a grand yearly total of 1.6 x 1016 liters, or 30 billion tonnes. 144 (1 tonne = a "metric ton" = 1,000 kilograms = 0.984 ton.) The other gases, while present in smaller amounts, have a greater relative absorptive capacity that ranges from fifty-eight times that of CO2 in the case of methane to several thousand for CFCs, and the amounts of them have been increasing.
This all sounds like something that should indeed be a cause for concern, until it's realized that the atmosphere contains something like 1,800 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide already from such sources as volcanoes, the outgassing of oceans, and the natural functioning of the biosphere. In other words, all of human activity adds less than two percent to the gases that nature puts out anyway. And then it turns out that all of these gases put together add up to a minor player, for the greatest contributor by far is water vapor. Although the exact figure varies from place to place and season to season, water vapor is typically present at ten times the concentration of carbon dioxide; further, it is active across the whole infrared range, whereas heat absorption by CO2 is confined to two narrow bands. Without this natural greenhouse mechanism, the Earth would be about 33 deg C cooler than it is, which would mean permanent ice at the equator. Estimates of the contribution of water vapor vary from 95 to 99 percent, thereby accounting for somewhere around 32 deg C of this. The remaining one degree is due to other gases. The effects of all of human activity are in the order of two percent of this latter figure. But, of course, you can't put a tax on water vapor or lambaste your favorite industrial villains for producing it, and so water vapor never gets mentioned in the polemics. Even professionals uncritically buy the publicized line. An astronomer reports that in an impromptu survey, six out of ten of her fellow astronomers replied "carbon dioxide" when asked what was the major greenhouse gas. 145
Ok, this isn't my recollection of what heppended. They (Interplay?) had the GURPS licence, and Steve Jackson Games was on board about them using it. There was alot of buzz at the time of it being the first "GURPS Powered" game on the market. Then, at the last minute, they hacked the GURPS stuff out of it. Anyone that's played the Fallout series and knows GURPS can tell that many of the game mechanics are very GURPS-like.
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I had similar thoughts.
It looked to me like running the resulting jpeg raw data through a DCT and low pass filtering the larger "block" layers might produce a similar image. I'm sure If I have nothing better to do some day I'll give it a try (i.e. I hope someone else tries it).
My Nexus 7 2012 wasn't "bricked", but it now takes a LONG time to "wake up" when it's wifi has been shut down, and the tablet is all but unusable for minutes while it recovers. I've taken to "closing" all my applications when I'm done using them (which I've NEVER done), and it seems to help a little. It's the first update I've not been impressed with, and that I think I'd roll back if I could (I haven't checked if I can).
Britain is full of savages, who also happen to be Muslims, only they don't call them that, they call them "Asian militants".
It takes two to tango, matey. While I in no way condone extremism, whether they hide behind 'Islam' or 'Christianity' (or your variant of 'morality', whatever that is), there's always at least two sides to a conflict. Comments like yours only serve to stoke the fires and making it more difficult to find a solution. If we want to solve the problems, we need to take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure - how can we do that, if we constantly isult each other over petty differences?
Fixed that for you.
At a minimum, your first statement "A" is incorrect. You should have said "Carbon dioxide provably has much stronger absorption bands in the infra-red wavelengths than Nitrogen, and Oxygen, but a lot less than water."
Water vapor is the single largest "greenhouse" gas in the atmosphere, and absorbs a large amount of energy in the infrared band compared to CO2. Mentioning incontestable facts, and then having the facts completely wrong doesn't help your argument.
It depends on the mine(s) and how they are triggered. It's quite possible for a mine "down the road" to trigger a series of mines back down the road/path when detonated.
I can't see the video (work BW block), but I assume they're moving the robot into position, at which point it fires a series of mine tripping explosives forward of it's position. If that's the case, the launch point could still be a mined location, even though the mine's fuse was further along the path. If a human was firing a similar weapon from the same place...one dead soldier, as opposed to a robot.
So, if I'm reading this right, the Standard Model assumes that cars and motorcycles are the same class of vehicle, correct? It's obvious that the Standard Model is broken if it fails on so fundamental of a level.
i.e. you are reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
I don't have a clue why this argument keeps coming up. I've been with three providers in two jurisdictions, and when I actually bothered to do the math, Tivo was cheaper TCO in every case, and provided a better experience. Maybe different companies/locations have better pricing than where I live, or maybe people are just lazy. My current costing:
Verizon FIOS charges $20 for a HD DVR, that (feature wise) sucks compared to a Tivo HD (with $250 initial cost).
My Tivo HD fee is $99/year ($8.33 per month), plus the $2 cable card fee from FIOS, or about $11 per month. At $9 a month savings, a Tivo HD pays itself off in about 26 months. After that it's gravy. I lose "On Demand" from my provider but I get access to all the Amazon and Netflix on demand I want.
In my mind, given that the HW will likely last beyond 3 years, the ROI doesn't favor the cable company AT ALL. The only "problem" is this STUPID idea that it's better to pay more every frickin month than pay an up front cost up front (i.e. cell phone providers). The only thing that might tempt me away from Tivo is if I could get "Tivo Pick" functionality in my own "roll your own" (Myth, etc.) solution.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hmm. Odd.
My carrier (Verizon FOIS) charges $20 for a HD DVR, that, quite frankly, is barely tolerable in terms of it's functionality compared to a Tivo HD. The "standard HD box" (no DVR) is about $13.
My Tivo HD costs me $8.33 per month ($99/year), plus the $2 cable card fee., or about $11 per month. At $9 a month, a $300 Tivo pays itself off in a little over 2.5 years. After that it's gravy. And all I've lost is "On Demand" from my provider, which quite frankly, sucks. Instead I get access to all the Amazon and Netflix on demand I could want (and I use the crap out of the Netflix stuff). Additionally I get all the home media features and SW provided. Should I care to I can download and/or archive recorded video, etc. In my mind, given that the HW will likely last beyond 3 years, the ROI doesn't favor the cable company AT ALL, esp. given that the quality and features of the Tivo unit exceed the cable offering. The only "problem" is the initial $300 outlay, but the cable company hits you with that in their monthly fee forever, as opposed to up front.
The ONLY thing FOIS had over Tivo was the multi-room DVR feature worked, and worked fairly well. Tivo definitely has room to improve in this area.
I'd think it likely, given a standard file sharing scenario, that this would fall under "non-commercial" and also "non-educational", making it difficult to meet this criteria.
Here is the interesting one in my mind. The nature of the work is essentially digital, and digital "works" exist only as ones and zeros stored in some pattern on a storage device meant to store ones and zeros. A large amount of software exists to translate those works from an essentially useless pattern (in terms of human recognition) into a picture, video, audio, or textual representation that humans would find useful. The work in this form is what was historically protected (in my limited understanding). For myself, I'm undecided (maybe unclear is a better word) why protections designed to work (for the most part) on printed text have now been extend to "works" that have no inherent value, in representations that have zero cost to "copy". I suppose at this point we'd have to refer to the social contract implied in copyright. Either way, I'd think in this area there's some wiggle room for a defense, but it seems unlikely a lower court would entertain it.
No doubt the whole work, so this clearly lands in the non-fair-use category.
I'm sure the "value" of the work is somewhat reduced by this type of distribution in a first order sense (i.e. if the downloader would have otherwise purchased the work in question, which is an unknown). It's unclear at best if the higher order effects overcome this or not (I think I've seen stories about studys that show both cases). In any case, I'd think there's some room here for a fair use defense.
Given all that I guess you get very little of (1), none of (3), leaving most of the potential argument on (2) and (4). It would probably benefit me to read the proposed defense to see what the law-minders were thinking.
In his "rant" he finally gets to the real core of the issue:
To this I say bullsh*t. I'm sorry, it's bad enough that you want to charge me the same damn price for an e-book as for a dead tree book, and then not give me the same rights with one as with the other*. Now you want to say that if I pay for a device with a particular function, I shouldn't be allowed to use it? I suppose I'm not allowed to read the damn book out loud now too? Or have someone ELSE read it to me out loud? 'Cause that's the BS you're trying to sell me, and dude, I'm not buying it.
If I pay for a (fictional) device to put dead tree books in, and it OCR's them and reads them out loud, am I suddenly not allowed to do that either? What a load of crap. If technology really IS making "performance art" (i.e. books on tape) obsolete, then guess what...your product isn't worth what it used to be. Live with it. Once I've paid for my copy I'm done...if you come back and tell me any more of this kind of crap I just won't bother buying your product in the future.
*Yes, yes, I have a ton of books from http://www.webscription.net/. I'm aware that at least they "get" it.
Ok, I'm gonna say it (again?) for the record: Season 2 of Enterprise sucked major donkey butt. The whole "expanse/temporal cold war" story line was completely out of line. By Season 3 though, they had started doing some good stories again, and it was unfortunate (in my mind) that it got canceled just as it was really starting to get good.
I purchased Bioshock on steam, and later found out I got the unexpected bonus of additional DRM. I'm willing to live with the DRM limits that steam itself imposes, but I DAMN WELL better not get any more than that. It ticks me off that now I have to research what games I can buy on steam to see if they come with more crap. If they do, I don't see any point to purchasing on steam when I can just buy the CD/DVD...which is exactly what I did for Fallout 3. At least I get the added benefit of having real install media since I'm forced to have this crap DRM anyway.
And yes, yes, I know I could download a crack/nocd/pirate copy. In general I prefer to be able to easily update my games (esp. newer releases, which are usually at least somewhat buggy) and not have to deal with getting a new crack/nocd after a patch. Is it so hard to just sell me the damn game and let me play it?
I played through Doom 3, and bought the add on pack. I started playing through the add-on (Resurrection of Evil?), but it just didn't do it for me, and is sitting somewhere collecting dust. In general, I think Doom 3 was perhaps more entertaining than 2, but not as good as the original. The elements put into Doom 3 tended to be overused, and the enemies were all variations on the same thing (with the same AI), just a little tougher to kill.
I did buy Quake 4, which played like what I was expecting from Doom 3. It had the feel of HL-2 (wasn't as good, imo, ymmv) in terms of better balancing, a storyline, and some squad based elements. It wasn't by any means great, but it was good and I've played through it several times since it was released, and find I still enjoy it.
I've heard these clouds may also contain one or more of the following: Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or Hydric acid. Nasty stuff, see http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html for more scary information.
Hmmm. I think you spelled "misinformed" incorrectly, you really need the "mis" in the front there.
I cry BS. You have every right to "mention my boyfriend/partner/husband as casually as straight men ...". What you don't have, is the right to say what you want and expect people to:
a) like it.
b) agree with it.
c) support it.
and I don't give a rat's ass what the protected (at least, in the USA, other contries have their own constitutions and laws, of course) speech in question is, the above will still apply.
If "equal rights" somehow means you'll be accepted in all circles for all of your views, then I think you're in for a disappointing life.
I'm a bit rusty on the particulars, so apologies in advance if I screw it up.
CDMA is Code Division Multiple Access. It works essentially by "transmitting" a signal correlated with a set of pseudo-random "codes", all of which are orthogonal. The orthogonal codes allows receivers to "decode" a signal of interest by decorelating the code from the data. This approach would probably work, up to the number of orthogonal codes used by the "watermark". The issue is coming up with a large enough set of said codes to be of use.
Direct, one-to-one, combinatorial attempts to destroy the watermark would likely fail, and given the pseudo-random nature of the codes, would likely only decrease the SNR by 3 dB or so. That said, I suspect there would be shift-and-average approaches that would likely destroy the watermarks for the same SNR "cost", which would probably make this approach easy to "defeat".
I own a Tivo (Series 1 no less) with lifetime, but I have to agree that the price of a "no ads listing" is overvalued at $13 a month. A subscription to "TV Guide" runs about $2.50 a month (if I did the math right). I'd certainly be willing to pay Tivo $3 a month for ad-enabled guide data, if that's really what's driving up the cost, over the current option of $13 a month.
Maybe that's what Tivo needs: a "cheaper" level of service that is supported with ad content.
I dunno, but I have FIOS cable with verizon, and the Motorola DVR they "rent" me for $20 a month is probably gonna hit the bricks this Christmas when I replace it with a Tivo HD. At the reduced $10 per month rate (Tivo fees+cable card fees) versus the $20 I pay verizon, it'll pay for itself in 2.5 years.
Hmmm. I've become a frickin grammar nazi. In general though, I agree with your comment. :-)
One would like to think that congresscritters have brains, but after 20 years as a voting American, I'm not convinced. To quote:
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. - Mark Twain
That's an open question. If you're broadcasting signals, what right do you have to tell me that I can't receive them?
I'd recommend you get yourself a nice x-band receiver and take a drive through Virginia. I'm sure you'll see that the government at least thinks there's no problem with them telling you want you can and can't receive.
Radar detectors (purely passive devices) have been illegal in many jurisdictions for many years.
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Ok, this isn't my recollection of what heppended. They (Interplay?) had the GURPS licence, and Steve Jackson Games was on board about them using it. There was alot of buzz at the time of it being the first "GURPS Powered" game on the market. Then, at the last minute, they hacked the GURPS stuff out of it. Anyone that's played the Fallout series and knows GURPS can tell that many of the game mechanics are very GURPS-like.