There are three classes of potential customers: product owners, users, and criminals. If the researcher makes it clear they are willing to sell their information to the third class - criminals - then it matters little if they are also willing to sell to the other two classes or not.
Did you know that criminals drink Pepsi and eat at McDonalds?
That of weapon choice. No way your kid is going to pwn anyone in Halo if he's using the first thing he finds (e.g. banana), it needs to be a split second decision based on what is available vs strengths and weaknesses of opponent.
Don't worry, he'll get it, but not if you cut him back to 4 hours, this requires mentoring by you and probably 8 to 10 hours per day, anything less is child abuse. Go get 'em.
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"whatcouldpossiblygowrong" is pretty entertaining when used sparingly, like maybe on a story about a new robotic dentist. But when we are talking about document formats, I think it starts to lose that special something.
The contents of the pallet (SKU's, qty's, etc) are sent electronically before the pallet arrives. The serial number in the RFID chip on the pallet is read and matched to the same serialized pallet in the database that was sent previously, so the system knows what the product is, who it came from, which purchase order, etc.
The clones produced by humans are not the same as twins in nature. Clones made by humans begin with mature cells that have their gene expression manipulated to trick them into thinking they are not mature cells. It is an interesting and far more complex process than the typical examples people provide regarding twins and hybrid plants, etc.
Here is an exceprt from a scientific paper regarding some of this process:
Improper gene activation may be responsible for genetic abnormalities and premature deaths among cloned animals and could hold the key to creating more viable cloned embryos, according to a study published yesterday in Nature Genetics, the Hartford Courant reports. Xiangzhong Yang, director of the University of Connecticut's Center for Regenerative Biology, and colleagues examined 10 X-linked genes in five dead female cow clones and four live cow clones and compared them with the same genes in normal cows. All of the genes were expressed, or "turned on," in the normal cows and the healthy clones. However, nine of the 10 genes in the dead clones had "failed to perform normally," most likely leading to the death of the clones (Hathaway, Hartford Courant, 5/27).
You are assuming that you can keep them in sync. If you read up on the time shifting method of encoding additional information you will see that arbitrarily small lengths of the original are either compressed, expanded or unaltered, leaving the encoded data not very "syncable".
While I realize humor is relative, I'm really struggling with how people are finding this funny. So they turned off the TV, ok, next lets turn off the lights, I just don't get it.
What happens if I take my timescale encoding method and mix it up, average the values, or arbitrarily re-set the timescale information in areas that the timescale data doesn't match with other files? Maybe I even throw in a few random new ones just for fun. Consider this:
1 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 5
2 + 1 + 2 = 5
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5
The unmodified data has been transformed such that arbitrarily small portions of the data have been either expanded, compressed or left unaltered. How are you going to determine where the boundaries are for each of these small sections of data, and how specifically it was modified without the original to compare to? They didn't just change some numbers, the entire encoding incorporates the algorithm, possibly every bit has been affected.
Read the section on how that particular system will extract the watermark, even with an original it's not trivial.
Whether the information is lost depends on the watermark method and the method/format of destination. If the destination format includes a process that strips out frequencies that are not audible, and the watermark method was to encode information in those frequencies, then the info is lost.
If, on the other hand, the watermark method employs other techniques of embedding information that is not already modified by the burning process, then it won't be lost. There are many ways to encode the information other than non-audible frequencies, including non-audible time-shifting, wave peak modification, phase shifting, etc.
When it becomes "theft" is when someone steals an identifying document, such as a passport, social/national security card, or a driv[er's|ing] licen[c|s]e.
So, if they steal a document then it's identity theft, but if they create a false document using accurate information, then it's not identity theft?
However would our global elites justify their 'carbon taxes' if it was definitively determined that changes in underwater volcanic activity [sciencedaily.com] was the primary cause behind observed climate changes?
Ok, so it's volcanoes, but what caused that magma to get so hot smarty-pants?
I was buying my kid an Xbox wireless controller from Target, the lady was having trouble scanning the UPC so she went looking for other barcodes, scanned the serial number which got a hit in their system as something for $6.99 (she figured out that wasn't right and eventually got the UPC to work).
I was pretty surprised that the S/N (or at least the left or right part of it) matched a UPC.
In fact, it has already been done several times with great success in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey_System_250 and... in Linux using SELinux! There's just one problem - it doesn't work well in practice outside high-security military installation. There's a usual usability-security trade-off.
AS400 (and predecessor S38) has been using these concepts successfully in a commercial environment since 1978.
I use AVG, ZoneAlarm, Spybot and Firefox (on Windows XP) but still run into problems. Mostly, I think, because my kids go to MySpace and YouTube and places like that. After a clean install everything seems fine, but after the kids spend some time on it I start experiencing symptoms like windows hanging when trying to log off an account, or windows hanging when trying to shutdown, etc.
Seriously, we have no idea what kind of room we have to work with, how many people you need space for, etc.
Good point, I better revise my original thoughts. Ok, we may not have room for the entire wildlife reserve so lets scrap the zebras and wildebeests, just the smaller animals should do. But I'm not going to budge on the military submarine drydock facility, these things are indispensible.
There should be room for at least one starbucks, probably in the southwest corner, adjacent to the home depot.
As an eco-friendly bike commuter we are going to want some space for supplies, repairs and a shower would be nice.
Does anyone know how much room we have left at this point?
"Why didn't you power me down before you left? Do you think money grows on trees? When I was your age we shut off ALL appliances before leaving the house, by HAND! And another thing..."
Yes there is a difference between the two acts, but the point is that they are similar in the sense that we as a society have arbitrarily created rules for a reason. In the case of copyright it is to motivate people to expend their capital and energy and produce something in the hopes that value will be created. In the case of real property it is to motivate people to expend their capital and energy to produce something in the hopes that value will be created. Both of these allow our economy to function.
The fact that the copyright holder can still use their work is really not the issue, the issue is exactly what you stated and that is that the value may be reduced.
millions of copies of pirated movies. People primarily object to the criminalization of non-commercial copying of material for personal use.
What is the difference between 1 million people downloading a song, and a factory churning out 1 million copies? I'm no fan of the RIAA but I still have yet to see an argument that answers the above question with any kind of validity. If downloading media is just not a big deal (as in it's just an after thought) then it should be just as easy to not copy anything illegally and go without the media, yet people argue vehemently that they should be able to do it.
I don't think you can accurately assess the impact of downloading without paying because there are too many variables. What if we tested it on media that people really couldn't get copies of? The demand would be higher and there would be some percentage of people that download that would probably pay, although that may or may not be offset by less exposure. Also, what if the price of the media were lowered, would some of those downloaders be converted? Without boring you, I can think of lots of different levels of optimization of all of the variables involved and I just don't think we have enough information to really know what the impact is.
Either way, this type of argument really strikes me as the same type of argument my daughter gave me for lying about her age to get a cheaper movie ticket, it's too small of an amount to make a difference to a large nameless/faceless organization. Nobody would notice.
For the N+1'th time: *copyright infringement is not stealing*. It's copyright infringement. It's making a copy that the law doesn't authorize. That's not the same thing as actually taking something away from someone.
But they are very similar in the sense that the only reason why either one is "wrong" is because we made laws stating that they are "wrong". There is no natural "right" that exists that says I can't just take your car. For stealing cars and for copyright infringement we created laws out of thin air because there is a benefit to society (yes I agree that IP laws have gone off the deep-end, but the point remains).
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Raehl, you've posted about 18 times about how she's a loon and BB didn't do anything wrong, and I'm noticing you sound defensive.
Did this incident break your streak of Employee of the Month?
Did you know that criminals drink Pepsi and eat at McDonalds?
Utilization is a standard term in computer and technical environments. It means something specific to most of us on Slashdot.
Possibly you mistook this forum for a different one?
That of weapon choice. No way your kid is going to pwn anyone in Halo if he's using the first thing he finds (e.g. banana), it needs to be a split second decision based on what is available vs strengths and weaknesses of opponent.
Don't worry, he'll get it, but not if you cut him back to 4 hours, this requires mentoring by you and probably 8 to 10 hours per day, anything less is child abuse. Go get 'em.
A comment on tagging:
"whatcouldpossiblygowrong" is pretty entertaining when used sparingly, like maybe on a story about a new robotic dentist. But when we are talking about document formats, I think it starts to lose that special something.
The contents of the pallet (SKU's, qty's, etc) are sent electronically before the pallet arrives. The serial number in the RFID chip on the pallet is read and matched to the same serialized pallet in the database that was sent previously, so the system knows what the product is, who it came from, which purchase order, etc.
Here is an exceprt from a scientific paper regarding some of this process:
You are assuming that you can keep them in sync. If you read up on the time shifting method of encoding additional information you will see that arbitrarily small lengths of the original are either compressed, expanded or unaltered, leaving the encoded data not very "syncable".
While I realize humor is relative, I'm really struggling with how people are finding this funny. So they turned off the TV, ok, next lets turn off the lights, I just don't get it.
Read the section on how that particular system will extract the watermark, even with an original it's not trivial.
Whether the information is lost depends on the watermark method and the method/format of destination. If the destination format includes a process that strips out frequencies that are not audible, and the watermark method was to encode information in those frequencies, then the info is lost.
If, on the other hand, the watermark method employs other techniques of embedding information that is not already modified by the burning process, then it won't be lost. There are many ways to encode the information other than non-audible frequencies, including non-audible time-shifting, wave peak modification, phase shifting, etc.
While I agree that people are going to break this, I don't think you are giving enough credit to the engineers and acedemics working on this problem. Read this linked article and you will see that it's far more complex than just bit twiddling (although clearly there will be differences in the bits ultimately).
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:kNuSjbUY1iYJ:www.fxpal.com/publications/FXPAL-PR-03-212.pdf+watermarking+audio&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
In addition, the Cell roadmap discussed some time ago showed a mini-cell (4SPU, low power) as one of the original targets.
Ok, so it's volcanoes, but what caused that magma to get so hot smarty-pants?
I was buying my kid an Xbox wireless controller from Target, the lady was having trouble scanning the UPC so she went looking for other barcodes, scanned the serial number which got a hit in their system as something for $6.99 (she figured out that wasn't right and eventually got the UPC to work).
I was pretty surprised that the S/N (or at least the left or right part of it) matched a UPC.
AS400 (and predecessor S38) has been using these concepts successfully in a commercial environment since 1978.
I use AVG, ZoneAlarm, Spybot and Firefox (on Windows XP) but still run into problems. Mostly, I think, because my kids go to MySpace and YouTube and places like that. After a clean install everything seems fine, but after the kids spend some time on it I start experiencing symptoms like windows hanging when trying to log off an account, or windows hanging when trying to shutdown, etc.
There should be room for at least one starbucks, probably in the southwest corner, adjacent to the home depot.
As an eco-friendly bike commuter we are going to want some space for supplies, repairs and a shower would be nice.
Does anyone know how much room we have left at this point?
"Why didn't you power me down before you left? Do you think money grows on trees? When I was your age we shut off ALL appliances before leaving the house, by HAND! And another thing..."
Yes there is a difference between the two acts, but the point is that they are similar in the sense that we as a society have arbitrarily created rules for a reason. In the case of copyright it is to motivate people to expend their capital and energy and produce something in the hopes that value will be created. In the case of real property it is to motivate people to expend their capital and energy to produce something in the hopes that value will be created. Both of these allow our economy to function.
The fact that the copyright holder can still use their work is really not the issue, the issue is exactly what you stated and that is that the value may be reduced.
I don't think you can accurately assess the impact of downloading without paying because there are too many variables. What if we tested it on media that people really couldn't get copies of? The demand would be higher and there would be some percentage of people that download that would probably pay, although that may or may not be offset by less exposure. Also, what if the price of the media were lowered, would some of those downloaders be converted? Without boring you, I can think of lots of different levels of optimization of all of the variables involved and I just don't think we have enough information to really know what the impact is.
Either way, this type of argument really strikes me as the same type of argument my daughter gave me for lying about her age to get a cheaper movie ticket, it's too small of an amount to make a difference to a large nameless/faceless organization. Nobody would notice.
That is how you responded. I'm confused because I didn't see the person say anything about copying software and making a couple changes.