This would probably be a feature most companies would want. That way if someone copies secret, proprietery IP, they could more easily track it. A company with the proper security system could require users to only print using their login, which could also be watermarked onto anything printed. This is all for naught if the employee takes the document home and copies it.
I would imagine that it isn't a simple pattern that is printed over the document. Its probably a hash of the document, based on the document content and the serial number. That would be harder to figure out. Even if it was a simple hash, and the algorithm was computationally easy to figure out, you would still have to print off multiple pages (your known variable) and then scan those documents. You might also have to try printing the same documents in multiple printers of the same model. Next, you could have the problem of the "Latest drivers" changing the hash algorithm and your back to square one. I wonder if digital cameras and scanners will start imprinting watermarks on pictures (they probably already do).
I once printed up fake backstage passes at a kinko's. They weren't counterfeit or copied. I designed a logo that looked somewhat like that of a local radio station and put the concert's name on it. The employee said we don't let people print up IDs or counterfeit money, but this is just funny, so he let me. The passes were good enough for me to walk to the backstage area and act like I was supposed to be there. I ended up finding a box full of event staff tags and was able to go whererever I wanted to for the whole concert.
I'm impressed with what google has done. They definetly (?) have a bright core group of people. But they don't have all that much money compared to other players in the computer industry, and those companies haven't succeded in thwarting M$.
I think if google made an OS it would be like their website no frills and FAST. I wish them the best of luck.
I liked skylab, that was a good bit of recycling. Rather than design a complex spacestation, they just used a stage from an Saturn V, bam instant spacestation, no assembly required.
Those are all benefits, but why have the government pay for it. I seriously doubt a private corporation would still be using the space shittle, which is an incredible waste of money compared to other solutions. Let the private corps benefit from the innovations. Or have the government pay a private corp X number of dollars to carry out the same functions that Nasa currently does.
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like I said, I wasn't sure about that. even more impressive.
Space exploration compared to F1
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I think that the benefits of actual space exploration are extremely limited. But there are many positive externalities. Tang, goretex, materials advancement, programming advancement (fill me in on more, those are off the top of my head). I personally like F1, but see no great societal value in the actual racing. Many benefits have come however from the tech development required to make the cars go fast.
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Its amazing that those guys had 256k of memory (I think, maybe that was the space shuttle), and they managed to write the flight control programs without any bugs. Programmers today have trouble with 256 megs of memory
Ads today are complete rubbish. Even looking back at ads from the 80`s in pcmagazine, they were a lot better then. Back then they would tell you the actual benefits and features of a product. Now you get a picture of the sky, with a window and a question, "where do you want to go today?". I want to know what I'm buying, and I don't think its an artists rendition of utopia, its a computer program.
I was so ticked about the extension of copyrights that I went as Sonny Bono this year for Halloween.
I dripped fake blood (candy apple sauce across my face), and taped branches to my ski jacket. I went around saying " I got you babe"
check my blog post about it
http://yorkpaddy.blogspot.com/2004/11/halloween-04.html
EA games can put out shiite because from what I understand, most of their games are monopoly franchise. Blizzard, maxis (I guess they are owned by someone now), id, and those other small companies you mentioned work in a competitve market.
If EA writes an incrementally better version of their football game, people who want to play the best football game will still buy the new game from EA instead of someone else, because no one else sells a football game. If id writes an only incrementally better Doom, everyone will go out and buy far cry, half life, or whatever other game of the week. That incourages id to write qaulity software. EA just wants to get the product out the door because they have a monopoly.
from what I remember Diamond's Rio play any format, MP3, Ogg, Flac, + others but those three are the only ones that matter to me. After that, I would buy a Creative, then an iPod. I'm a value oriented person.
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this guy is ingenious, I bet the DoD will be at his door soon. Imagine what they would pay for such a system
As opposed to national ID cards, loyalty card are optional. Sure you could say national ID cards are optional (you can move out of the country) but it is different. There is a much higher transaction cost in changing countries compared to changing supermarkets.
I don't like the idea because its an invasion of privacy. But, if you are going to have said law to help more fairly tax those who use roads, why not make the law actually do that. Add in a factor for vehicle weight, a prius is going to cause less road damage than an accord (I think it weighs less, might not with those godawful heavy batteries), and it definetly weighs less then an excursion. The excursion is going to cause more road wear than a prius, so it should be taxed more per road mile its driven. Also, motorcycles should be taxed almost nothing, since they weigh so little.
While your at it, why not tax based on the way the vehicles are used. A prius hauling one person getting 50 mpg, is getting 50pmpg pmpg=people miles per gallon). An excursion hauling 7 people getting 10mpg is getting 70pmpg.
Its good to have the public have some knowledge of forensics. The OJ jury didn't believe overwelming forensics and set him free. Juries should also be smart enough to know hen to believe eyewitness accounts.
oops, hoping for to much, why should I expect juries to be smart
good point, I didn't read the article. Still my comments on my expreience are valid. Sometimes we would lay caution tape a foot above the pipe, sometimes not. I don't know why we didn't do it everytime, but I wasn't in charge. We were a lot more careful around the electric and gas main lines then we were around existing sewer, water, and stormdrain. The sewer, water, and stormdrain lines weren't a big deal since we worked on them and could fix a problem if we caused it. Hitting an electrical or gas main is dangerous.
One day we were laying new sewer out of an existing manhole, parallel to an existing water line. We disrupted the waterline causing it to break. This let out an enormous qauntity of water before we were able to shut it off, all into the trench. The trench was 6 feet wide, 15 or so feet deep and about 30 feet long. The trench quckly filled up and eventually drained out the sewer line we had just laid. The next day I had to go to the downstream sewer manholes and shovel sediment into buckets that were hauled up by someone topside.
oh, one more thing. When I was working utility construction, we had to dig by hand whenever we thought we were within two feet of a burried pipeline. I worked on one job with a 24 inch Gas transmission main (for a lot of Northern VA) and a 40 year old electrical main (with Really thin insulation). We would have to dig by hand to locate those lines. This was a miserable job, marine clay, standing water all over the place. Often we had no idea where the lines were (despite markings on the roadway) we would dig 5 feet down, and sometimes 7 - 10 feet perpendicularly to the direction of the line. This was a new construction 5 acre lot in a subdivision. To top it all off, once we marked the line with 4x4's, the loader operator would accidently break, cover, or bend the 4x4, so we'd have to go back and dig it up again to find it.
I have worked utility construction, and yes that stuff does happen from time to time. It happens when old lines are maintained too. Any underground work poses those risks. There are standards and procedures for working underground which are generally adhered too. One of the biggest problems is poor marking of old lines (in the ground and on surveys).
This sounds to me like a complaint of a competitor desperately trying to stop progress.
I know walmart does an amazing amount of business, but I still don't see how their CRM system needs 400 terabytes. How much space do you need to say, "person A bought pop tarts, a CD, and milk on 11/14/04"
Yeah, they started launching space shuttles off of 747's, they track down ICBMs and their fire plume upone disentegration on re-entry destroys the missile.
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This would probably be a feature most companies would want. That way if someone copies secret, proprietery IP, they could more easily track it. A company with the proper security system could require users to only print using their login, which could also be watermarked onto anything printed. This is all for naught if the employee takes the document home and copies it.
I would imagine that it isn't a simple pattern that is printed over the document. Its probably a hash of the document, based on the document content and the serial number. That would be harder to figure out. Even if it was a simple hash, and the algorithm was computationally easy to figure out, you would still have to print off multiple pages (your known variable) and then scan those documents. You might also have to try printing the same documents in multiple printers of the same model. Next, you could have the problem of the "Latest drivers" changing the hash algorithm and your back to square one. I wonder if digital cameras and scanners will start imprinting watermarks on pictures (they probably already do).
I once printed up fake backstage passes at a kinko's. They weren't counterfeit or copied. I designed a logo that looked somewhat like that of a local radio station and put the concert's name on it. The employee said we don't let people print up IDs or counterfeit money, but this is just funny, so he let me. The passes were good enough for me to walk to the backstage area and act like I was supposed to be there. I ended up finding a box full of event staff tags and was able to go whererever I wanted to for the whole concert.
I'm glad i'm a dumpster diver.
I'm impressed with what google has done. They definetly (?) have a bright core group of people. But they don't have all that much money compared to other players in the computer industry, and those companies haven't succeded in thwarting M$. I think if google made an OS it would be like their website no frills and FAST. I wish them the best of luck.
I liked skylab, that was a good bit of recycling. Rather than design a complex spacestation, they just used a stage from an Saturn V, bam instant spacestation, no assembly required.
Those are all benefits, but why have the government pay for it. I seriously doubt a private corporation would still be using the space shittle, which is an incredible waste of money compared to other solutions. Let the private corps benefit from the innovations. Or have the government pay a private corp X number of dollars to carry out the same functions that Nasa currently does.
like I said, I wasn't sure about that. even more impressive.
I think that the benefits of actual space exploration are extremely limited. But there are many positive externalities. Tang, goretex, materials advancement, programming advancement (fill me in on more, those are off the top of my head). I personally like F1, but see no great societal value in the actual racing. Many benefits have come however from the tech development required to make the cars go fast.
Its amazing that those guys had 256k of memory (I think, maybe that was the space shuttle), and they managed to write the flight control programs without any bugs. Programmers today have trouble with 256 megs of memory
Ads today are complete rubbish. Even looking back at ads from the 80`s in pcmagazine, they were a lot better then. Back then they would tell you the actual benefits and features of a product. Now you get a picture of the sky, with a window and a question, "where do you want to go today?". I want to know what I'm buying, and I don't think its an artists rendition of utopia, its a computer program.
I was so ticked about the extension of copyrights that I went as Sonny Bono this year for Halloween. I dripped fake blood (candy apple sauce across my face), and taped branches to my ski jacket. I went around saying " I got you babe" check my blog post about it http://yorkpaddy.blogspot.com/2004/11/halloween-04 .html
EA games can put out shiite because from what I understand, most of their games are monopoly franchise. Blizzard, maxis (I guess they are owned by someone now), id, and those other small companies you mentioned work in a competitve market. If EA writes an incrementally better version of their football game, people who want to play the best football game will still buy the new game from EA instead of someone else, because no one else sells a football game. If id writes an only incrementally better Doom, everyone will go out and buy far cry, half life, or whatever other game of the week. That incourages id to write qaulity software. EA just wants to get the product out the door because they have a monopoly.
from what I remember Diamond's Rio play any format, MP3, Ogg, Flac, + others but those three are the only ones that matter to me. After that, I would buy a Creative, then an iPod. I'm a value oriented person.
this guy is ingenious, I bet the DoD will be at his door soon. Imagine what they would pay for such a system
As opposed to national ID cards, loyalty card are optional. Sure you could say national ID cards are optional (you can move out of the country) but it is different. There is a much higher transaction cost in changing countries compared to changing supermarkets.
I don't like the idea because its an invasion of privacy. But, if you are going to have said law to help more fairly tax those who use roads, why not make the law actually do that. Add in a factor for vehicle weight, a prius is going to cause less road damage than an accord (I think it weighs less, might not with those godawful heavy batteries), and it definetly weighs less then an excursion. The excursion is going to cause more road wear than a prius, so it should be taxed more per road mile its driven. Also, motorcycles should be taxed almost nothing, since they weigh so little. While your at it, why not tax based on the way the vehicles are used. A prius hauling one person getting 50 mpg, is getting 50pmpg pmpg=people miles per gallon). An excursion hauling 7 people getting 10mpg is getting 70pmpg.
thats a wonderful philosophy. Why invade Germany, so what about the holocaust, a couple of innocent people might die.
Its good to have the public have some knowledge of forensics. The OJ jury didn't believe overwelming forensics and set him free. Juries should also be smart enough to know hen to believe eyewitness accounts. oops, hoping for to much, why should I expect juries to be smart
good point, I didn't read the article. Still my comments on my expreience are valid. Sometimes we would lay caution tape a foot above the pipe, sometimes not. I don't know why we didn't do it everytime, but I wasn't in charge. We were a lot more careful around the electric and gas main lines then we were around existing sewer, water, and stormdrain. The sewer, water, and stormdrain lines weren't a big deal since we worked on them and could fix a problem if we caused it. Hitting an electrical or gas main is dangerous. One day we were laying new sewer out of an existing manhole, parallel to an existing water line. We disrupted the waterline causing it to break. This let out an enormous qauntity of water before we were able to shut it off, all into the trench. The trench was 6 feet wide, 15 or so feet deep and about 30 feet long. The trench quckly filled up and eventually drained out the sewer line we had just laid. The next day I had to go to the downstream sewer manholes and shovel sediment into buckets that were hauled up by someone topside.
oh, one more thing. When I was working utility construction, we had to dig by hand whenever we thought we were within two feet of a burried pipeline. I worked on one job with a 24 inch Gas transmission main (for a lot of Northern VA) and a 40 year old electrical main (with Really thin insulation). We would have to dig by hand to locate those lines. This was a miserable job, marine clay, standing water all over the place. Often we had no idea where the lines were (despite markings on the roadway) we would dig 5 feet down, and sometimes 7 - 10 feet perpendicularly to the direction of the line. This was a new construction 5 acre lot in a subdivision. To top it all off, once we marked the line with 4x4's, the loader operator would accidently break, cover, or bend the 4x4, so we'd have to go back and dig it up again to find it.
I have worked utility construction, and yes that stuff does happen from time to time. It happens when old lines are maintained too. Any underground work poses those risks. There are standards and procedures for working underground which are generally adhered too. One of the biggest problems is poor marking of old lines (in the ground and on surveys).
This sounds to me like a complaint of a competitor desperately trying to stop progress.
I know walmart does an amazing amount of business, but I still don't see how their CRM system needs 400 terabytes. How much space do you need to say, "person A bought pop tarts, a CD, and milk on 11/14/04"
Yeah, they started launching space shuttles off of 747's, they track down ICBMs and their fire plume upone disentegration on re-entry destroys the missile.