Naa, it's blue-violet... use it and you'll get some shity colors. For some reason, the human eye perceives some red in the violet (the sensitivity function of the red detecting cells is bimodal with a small bump in the violet)... so as long as there is some red in your image you could compensate it by lowering the amount of red but you won't get true-blue. Oh well, maybe not that much of a problem, after all, the brain perception of color is relative to the context rather than absolute, so in a dark room this would give good results, but not in a lighted environment with color references.
To display the image they use diffraction, that means that they place a mask in front of the laser which is the fourrier transform of the image they want to display...
Why would you have your OS on that drive/partition?
You use this on your data partition...
You just need to use a special driver that retains where the data is (a file allocation table if you want)... it could fit on a USB key and you're set.
IIRC that law was not enforced in Britain when a group sent a judge encrypted content claiming it was evidence as part of an investigation, asking him to turn out the private key...
Now, the point is, the law enforcement wouldn't even KNOW that you have encrypted content, it should look just like unformatted disk space... If they suspect you have, you can show them one layer etc... how many layers are they willing to go to? You can hide something that satisfies them in the first layer, say pron, mp3 or political criticism.... are they still doubtfull, ok you got it, the second layer has more dangerous things etc etc
Has been around since ever... it is still present in the western world, although less 'obvious' than in China. Give China a rest about that! US principle are not universal principles. I do not believe in censorship, I think it's wrong, but the 'great firewall' in China is not something *wrong*. Now China does infringe on many human rights I care about, that's a different business. But, heck, the US is in a bad position to talk about censorship. Political correctness is a form of censorship, absurd MPAA ratings are a form of censorship. And yes, China's right, there is a huge pressure for censorship of the internet in the US by prudes.
Ok, you embed a user-id into each file downloaded and look for it on p2p networks?
But giving the number of insecure home PCs, the files out there will propably be stolen from people who bought them legally online and then shared everywhere.
This study is sponsored by the OSDL so it has an initial bias. If it were a study proving Windows to be cheaper sponsored by Microsoft, everyone would be yelling at the bias - rightfully. So it's only fair game to strongly underline this. (BTW, I AM Linux biaised. but that's not the point here;) )
So now evey desktop PC will ship with 3d acceleration and an opengl based X server - or better - an opengl based graphic server supporting X a legacy can arise... no more "but some people don't have acceleration" argument... I'm already dribbling in front of expose... but my linux desktop being behind MacOs AND vista... no way!
Everyone knows that... I mean if a user has an idea what spywares are and heard of firefox he probably uses it, if not this study won't change anything.
I actually am a lazy grad student doing research on the net in my underwears...
But yeah, actually I generally skip to the references... Hey, those references ARE generally papers from peer reviewed scientific journals...
This "often" works because the "syntax" is a good hash function for the semantic... as long as the movie title is rather unique, it'll work. Try looking for a movie called "the web" for example... Adding imdb or wikipedia to the query? Well, this is precisely adding semantic to your query.
Yep this is nice... but far from being enough... category specific search is just one thing, the web need to be pushed to full semantic searches, to allow me to look for example to map the people who liked a particular movie, see the list of schools who have a teacher teaching a particular subject etc.
Maybe they are not going to catch google at this "raw brute-force search engine game"... good for them! Why would one try to imitate such a primitive way of searching. Come on, this is the prehistory of search engines, there is so so much more to do.
They should take a leap into next generation search engines. When I look for a movie, I go to imdb, when I look for a scientific article, I go directly to wikipedia... I wish I'd use only one site but I need to look for more than a movie title, I want to specify it is a movie, and if in my native language "movie" is written just like "baby diapers" I still want to be unambiguous... Google still relies VERY heavily on syntaxic tricks... there are so many "tricks" in Google maps it is sickening, just for the sake of keeping a single search bar. The future is clearly semantic, I think Google is seeing it with Google base but for the moment, this is their only "appearant" use.
Essentially, if one could just be cryogenized for a long period of time, for the sake of making money, more and more people would do it, thus reducing the economic activity and the interest rates, in the end, you'd have a balance between the loss of "losing" a few years and gaining not so much more interests. Arbitrages using cryo would soon disappear.
This is actually a Good Thing. The less people care about the chip in their computer - as long as it works - the better for competition. The people who care are either
-very informed, a small minority
-sensitive to marketting
(I wanna this pentium thing, it will speed my internet connection, they say it in this commercial)
Well, at a first glance watermarking seems very good, you put the credit card number of the person as a watermark for example, this dissuades the person from sharing! Unfortunately, any watermarking scheme is prone to hacking... What if your box is insecure and your file get stolen and released on the net?
since every drm schemed is eventually going to be hacked, and therefore the protection removed, not only for the ubergeeks but for everyone through file sharing systems. Since current drm imply shady business with the OS (Sony rootkit) and rights restriction (copying music between all the devices you own etc), since DRM has been critized to assume the consumers where outlaws. Then why not make a jump.
I'd suggest a DRM system based on a simple RDF file indicating what the user has the right to do with the file... this file is attached to the media content. Sure, it'll be extremely easy to crack, so easy it won't even be fun. Ethic media players would read the file and tell you, this is the 10th time you've read this file. I can't read it anymore you need to buy another lease, or buy the song entirely etc....
Maybe I'm just a dreamer... after all how many sharewares, most of whom where not based on restrictions, just on nag screens after a certain period, where registered? Well maybe it's different for music, I don't know...
But after all, the current DRM situation is the same with a little more obfuscation that's it... so why not?
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He doesn't need one, there are no nerves in the brain => no pain Well Ok, maybe for the skin but still, a very light local one will do.
Naa, it's blue-violet... use it and you'll get some shity colors. For some reason, the human eye perceives some red in the violet (the sensitivity function of the red detecting cells is bimodal with a small bump in the violet)... so as long as there is some red in your image you could compensate it by lowering the amount of red but you won't get true-blue. Oh well, maybe not that much of a problem, after all, the brain perception of color is relative to the context rather than absolute, so in a dark room this would give good results, but not in a lighted environment with color references.
To display the image they use diffraction, that means that they place a mask in front of the laser which is the fourrier transform of the image they want to display...
Why would you have your OS on that drive/partition? You use this on your data partition... You just need to use a special driver that retains where the data is (a file allocation table if you want)... it could fit on a USB key and you're set.
Well, that's easy for the green and red part, the blue laser is other business.. they don't come cheap nor small.
IIRC that law was not enforced in Britain when a group sent a judge encrypted content claiming it was evidence as part of an investigation, asking him to turn out the private key... Now, the point is, the law enforcement wouldn't even KNOW that you have encrypted content, it should look just like unformatted disk space... If they suspect you have, you can show them one layer etc... how many layers are they willing to go to? You can hide something that satisfies them in the first layer, say pron, mp3 or political criticism.... are they still doubtfull, ok you got it, the second layer has more dangerous things etc etc
... until the crack is published :)
(sadly this is more insightful than funny)
Let bad guys use deniable encryption schemes and this won't even be a concern... Please, someone in the U.K. gov get a clue about encryption!
Has been around since ever... it is still present in the western world, although less 'obvious' than in China. Give China a rest about that! US principle are not universal principles. I do not believe in censorship, I think it's wrong, but the 'great firewall' in China is not something *wrong*. Now China does infringe on many human rights I care about, that's a different business. But, heck, the US is in a bad position to talk about censorship. Political correctness is a form of censorship, absurd MPAA ratings are a form of censorship. And yes, China's right, there is a huge pressure for censorship of the internet in the US by prudes.
Ok, you embed a user-id into each file downloaded and look for it on p2p networks? But giving the number of insecure home PCs, the files out there will propably be stolen from people who bought them legally online and then shared everywhere.
This study is sponsored by the OSDL so it has an initial bias. If it were a study proving Windows to be cheaper sponsored by Microsoft, everyone would be yelling at the bias - rightfully. So it's only fair game to strongly underline this. (BTW, I AM Linux biaised. but that's not the point here ;) )
So now evey desktop PC will ship with 3d acceleration and an opengl based X server - or better - an opengl based graphic server supporting X a legacy can arise... no more "but some people don't have acceleration" argument... I'm already dribbling in front of expose... but my linux desktop being behind MacOs AND vista... no way!
Everyone knows that... I mean if a user has an idea what spywares are and heard of firefox he probably uses it, if not this study won't change anything.
the UK has the lowest rate of usage of firefox in europe.
I actually am a lazy grad student doing research on the net in my underwears... But yeah, actually I generally skip to the references... Hey, those references ARE generally papers from peer reviewed scientific journals...
This "often" works because the "syntax" is a good hash function for the semantic... as long as the movie title is rather unique, it'll work. Try looking for a movie called "the web" for example... Adding imdb or wikipedia to the query? Well, this is precisely adding semantic to your query.
Yep this is nice... but far from being enough... category specific search is just one thing, the web need to be pushed to full semantic searches, to allow me to look for example to map the people who liked a particular movie, see the list of schools who have a teacher teaching a particular subject etc.
Maybe they are not going to catch google at this "raw brute-force search engine game"... good for them! Why would one try to imitate such a primitive way of searching. Come on, this is the prehistory of search engines, there is so so much more to do. They should take a leap into next generation search engines. When I look for a movie, I go to imdb, when I look for a scientific article, I go directly to wikipedia... I wish I'd use only one site but I need to look for more than a movie title, I want to specify it is a movie, and if in my native language "movie" is written just like "baby diapers" I still want to be unambiguous... Google still relies VERY heavily on syntaxic tricks... there are so many "tricks" in Google maps it is sickening, just for the sake of keeping a single search bar. The future is clearly semantic, I think Google is seeing it with Google base but for the moment, this is their only "appearant" use.
Essentially, if one could just be cryogenized for a long period of time, for the sake of making money, more and more people would do it, thus reducing the economic activity and the interest rates, in the end, you'd have a balance between the loss of "losing" a few years and gaining not so much more interests. Arbitrages using cryo would soon disappear.
Yeah, they transplanted me yours, I didn't think you'd miss it. Who the hell are you anyway?
Remembers me those "get paid to surf" adbars... eventually people will find a way to cheat the system to make more money, making the stats useless.
This is actually a Good Thing. The less people care about the chip in their computer - as long as it works - the better for competition. The people who care are either -very informed, a small minority -sensitive to marketting (I wanna this pentium thing, it will speed my internet connection, they say it in this commercial)
Well, at a first glance watermarking seems very good, you put the credit card number of the person as a watermark for example, this dissuades the person from sharing! Unfortunately, any watermarking scheme is prone to hacking... What if your box is insecure and your file get stolen and released on the net?
since every drm schemed is eventually going to be hacked, and therefore the protection removed, not only for the ubergeeks but for everyone through file sharing systems. Since current drm imply shady business with the OS (Sony rootkit) and rights restriction (copying music between all the devices you own etc), since DRM has been critized to assume the consumers where outlaws. Then why not make a jump. I'd suggest a DRM system based on a simple RDF file indicating what the user has the right to do with the file... this file is attached to the media content. Sure, it'll be extremely easy to crack, so easy it won't even be fun. Ethic media players would read the file and tell you, this is the 10th time you've read this file. I can't read it anymore you need to buy another lease, or buy the song entirely etc.... Maybe I'm just a dreamer... after all how many sharewares, most of whom where not based on restrictions, just on nag screens after a certain period, where registered? Well maybe it's different for music, I don't know... But after all, the current DRM situation is the same with a little more obfuscation that's it... so why not?
buy calls on copper... serioulsy, has anyone access to historical datas on commodities?