So, the law does not apply to the anonymous political speech you reference, nor to political speech not produced as part of a paid-for campaign, and actually does not forbid any speech.
It's claiming that it's a good idea to have astroturfing paid political shills register, which was what the bill was about. Apparently you are missing the part where all the reporting on the bill was complete fabrications and had very little to do with the reality of what it covered.
People were screaming about the whole thing being a complete fabrication each time it was posted on Slashdot. You could have just, you know, read the comments?
Except the watermarking algorithm obviously works nothing like this. It's far more complex. I was merely pointing out a mathematically fallacy in the earlier poster's argument, not discussing any kind of watermarking algorithms.
Well, if you're talking reality, the algorithm would be nowhere near as simple as removing bits. That's just the dumbed-down explanation for the media.
Incorrect. Even the summary implies that it lets a lot of different pixel shine on the sensor at any moment, and untangles it with maths afterwards. It still needs to be faster, but there's also just one, and it can be big.
Or maybe if something is too ridiculous to be true... It's not true, and Slashdot is lying to you again and you're not questioning what you are being told?
Check out what happens to scientists who question Darwinism.
Check out what happens to scientsits who question the Copernican solar system.
In both cases, they get laughed at because they are so demonstratably wrong.
Perhaps refer to articles criticizing String theory in physics and what happens to physicists who don't stick to the party line.
Nothing happens to them. Lots of physicists critize string theory, and work on alternate theories. The idea that there is some kind of "party line" in physics, or in science in general, is highly insulting to the entire profession.
Wow. You get a buzzkill because the numbers on a display don't match to what you want them to match?
Well, yeah, I can suspend disbelief, but only as long as you don't start putting numbers on the screen that tell me that the events depicted are ridiculous.
You're really bent out of shape about that speed readout thing aren't you?
Yes, yes I am. Because it so well represents the stupid design - trying to be realistic by giving you readouts and stuff, but failing to actually be realistic in any way. Its only purpose seems to be to explain to you that they got it all wrong.
Not that there is anything wrong as such with a ridiculous physics model, as long as you play it right. Freespace, however, acts like it was realistic. It even has a speed readout that shows you that your spaceship is actually moving slower than a mid-twentieth-century fighter jet. That a buzzkill right there.
So you disagree that flying "spaceships" that move slower than atmospheric fighter jets, and a plot that absolutely tramples all over anyone's suspension of disbelief is ridiculous?
Compared to other stuff I've played, like Frontier and Independence War. Actually, having ridiculous physics is fine, if you play it right - Wing Commander did, it never pretended to be in any way realistic. Freespace rubbed your nose in it with stuff like speed readouts that maxed out at speeds lower than fighter jets from the 1960s could do.
If it's so bad you can't even finish more than a handful missions before becoming disgusted, that's a pretty good indication the game design is fundamentally flawed.
Hey, maybe it gets better, but I doubt they would suddenly changed the idiotic physics model in the middle of the game, or suddenly hired competent writers.
Man, Freespace was the absolutely worst space sim I've ever tried to play. Ridiculous physics, ridiculous gameplay, and a completely and utterly ridiculous plot. Well, start of a plot. I didn't get past a couple of missions before uninstalling it in disgust and never playing it again.
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Think of your own scenarios for female guards, I don't go that way.
Yes, better try your hardest not to ever think of a penis! DON'T THINK OF PENISES!
YOU MIGHT CATCH THE GAY!
So, the law does not apply to the anonymous political speech you reference, nor to political speech not produced as part of a paid-for campaign, and actually does not forbid any speech.
What was your point, again?
I am forced to admit that I may have been overly optimistic.
It's claiming that it's a good idea to have astroturfing paid political shills register, which was what the bill was about. Apparently you are missing the part where all the reporting on the bill was complete fabrications and had very little to do with the reality of what it covered.
"Look back"?
People were screaming about the whole thing being a complete fabrication each time it was posted on Slashdot. You could have just, you know, read the comments?
If they want "innovative, slick software", why are they turning to the open source community?
Except the watermarking algorithm obviously works nothing like this. It's far more complex. I was merely pointing out a mathematically fallacy in the earlier poster's argument, not discussing any kind of watermarking algorithms.
My challenge was specifically to the poster who claimed you needed n-1 copies to recover n bits, which was utter nonsense.
None of this has anything to do with the real algorithm, which is nowhere near as simple as removing bits, no matter what the summary says.
I see what your problem is there - you actually believe Slashdot summaries.
Your very own clown hat!
Well, if you're talking reality, the algorithm would be nowhere near as simple as removing bits. That's just the dumbed-down explanation for the media.
It's a sad thing to see - RFID is essentially a stock tracking system, add it to people and you too are stock to be tracked.
How, exactly, do you think the military works? Every soldier is treated as a precious little snowflake?
Just when you thought Slashdot couldn't get any more idiotically arrogant...
Incorrect. Even the summary implies that it lets a lot of different pixel shine on the sensor at any moment, and untangles it with maths afterwards. It still needs to be faster, but there's also just one, and it can be big.
Or maybe if something is too ridiculous to be true... It's not true, and Slashdot is lying to you again and you're not questioning what you are being told?
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Check out what happens to scientists who question Darwinism.
Check out what happens to scientsits who question the Copernican solar system.
In both cases, they get laughed at because they are so demonstratably wrong.
Perhaps refer to articles criticizing String theory in physics and what happens to physicists who don't stick to the party line.
Nothing happens to them. Lots of physicists critize string theory, and work on alternate theories. The idea that there is some kind of "party line" in physics, or in science in general, is highly insulting to the entire profession.
Wow. You get a buzzkill because the numbers on a display don't match to what you want them to match?
Well, yeah, I can suspend disbelief, but only as long as you don't start putting numbers on the screen that tell me that the events depicted are ridiculous.
You're really bent out of shape about that speed readout thing aren't you?
Yes, yes I am. Because it so well represents the stupid design - trying to be realistic by giving you readouts and stuff, but failing to actually be realistic in any way. Its only purpose seems to be to explain to you that they got it all wrong.
I enjoyed Frontier and Independence War a lot.
Not that there is anything wrong as such with a ridiculous physics model, as long as you play it right. Freespace, however, acts like it was realistic. It even has a speed readout that shows you that your spaceship is actually moving slower than a mid-twentieth-century fighter jet. That a buzzkill right there.
So you disagree that flying "spaceships" that move slower than atmospheric fighter jets, and a plot that absolutely tramples all over anyone's suspension of disbelief is ridiculous?
Compared to other stuff I've played, like Frontier and Independence War. Actually, having ridiculous physics is fine, if you play it right - Wing Commander did, it never pretended to be in any way realistic. Freespace rubbed your nose in it with stuff like speed readouts that maxed out at speeds lower than fighter jets from the 1960s could do.
If it's so bad you can't even finish more than a handful missions before becoming disgusted, that's a pretty good indication the game design is fundamentally flawed.
Hey, maybe it gets better, but I doubt they would suddenly changed the idiotic physics model in the middle of the game, or suddenly hired competent writers.
Man, Freespace was the absolutely worst space sim I've ever tried to play. Ridiculous physics, ridiculous gameplay, and a completely and utterly ridiculous plot. Well, start of a plot. I didn't get past a couple of missions before uninstalling it in disgust and never playing it again.
The issue is not whether there is warming (there quite clearly is), but whether its major cause is anthropogenic or a result of natural events.
This is not an "issue" among the scientists who actually study this stuff, only in the media.