...because it doesn't address the REAL problem. The real problem isn't accidents and inefficient driving. The real problem is that there are simply too many drivers on too few roads. If ITS is purported to solve other problems, like fuel inefficiencies due to poor driving patterns and accidents, then great, but ITS is advertised as the solution to congestion. NOT
Read a new study out from Deloitte research titled: "Combating Gridlock: How Road User Pricing Can Ease Suggestion". I won't try to summarize it here, but if you have 10 minutes, read it:
Face it Richard, no one really cares about where you or I go, or what we did today, our lives just aren't that important. That placed on the fact that there is absolutly no law that currently prevents face recognition software from being used, either in public or private sectors, makes your little diatribe about it just an excercise in scaring people about the new laws.
You say that now because you probably live in a hole and don't do a whole lot that affects the world around you or impacts other people. Wait until you actually matter; until you are important. Then some people will start to give a damn about what you do and where you do.
We've been speaknig very generally about "encryption schemes" and "hackers", but it seems to me that this is much more simple than anyone has alluded to.
If anyone cares to try, I gurantee that you can easily capture the decoded stream after it has been passed to the DirectX Media runtime files. The nature of Windoze Media and video playback is such that it uses (exclusively) DirectX Media. If you don't believe me, install XingDVD player and delete some DXMedia runtime files and try playing an MPEG. EVEN INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE USES DIRECTX RUNTIME FILES FOR DECOMPRESSION. Therefore, it is plausible, and indeed, very likely, that you can simply capture the contents of a DMA segment in extended memory and stream it to the hard drive.
But you have to wonder, and I'm only speculating here, how many objections to this plan were heard by management from programmers within SightSound and MS before this was launched.
Right now, Dr. Lederman is sitting in an office not more than 30 feet away, and I just said hello to him as I walked by. Small world? I would say tiny. the cat is dead and alive. that is why time travel is possible. ~vishesh
for those among us who are technologically superior, we shall rent Matrix on DVD. Then we shall skip to the "behind-the-scences" section. We shall then proceed to watch real footage of the development of those scenes from the footage. Then we shall laugh at the pitiful attempt by ABCNews to detail this fantastic method of cinematography. We shall. It's kinda like watching a monkey put out a housefire. Kinda.
I certainly agree with what most people have said so far, but I also believe that this is part of a greater problem with American schools. Everybody and their brothers know that American schools and students have been falling behind with respect to nearly every other nation in the world in math, science, and all other basic subjects. However, I think the problem lies in the fact that schools are no longer a place of merely learning, they have been forced to take the role of child care facilities, disciplinary institutions, self-esteem caretakers, and nearly everything else that a school simply shouldn't be used for.
In every other nation of the world, teachers are not burdened with having to discipline students, ensure that they are well-adjusted, be a mentor, a family counselor, a baby-sitter, and play so many other roles. In the US, parents simply send their kids off to school in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon, and essentially exculpate themselves from any responsibility of what happens in between.
Another major problem is that parents of disabled and/or mentally handicapped students have to stop whining about equal rights for students in the classroom. Sure, any handicapped student has the same right has every other student, but only to a certain extent. I certainly don't believe that a student with a handicap that places them at the learning level of a 3rd grader should ever be placed in classes like Number Theory, or Calc-based Physics. What about my rights? When the teacher has to stop teaching and go call the school nurse, all because some handicapped (i use the pc-term with reservations) student started peeing in their pants, or started taking off his shirt and jumping around, doesn't that encroach upon my rights? So another thing that teachers have to do is stop giving a damn about students emotional and psychological problems. Sure, if a student starts crying because they failed test, the teacher has a responsibility to help him to do well, but if a student starts crying because he doesn't think he fits in, tough luck; go talk to the counselor, and do notever burden the teacher with it.
I really think that there are major problems with schools these days (I'm still referring to the pre-secondary and secondary school level) and the only way to fix them is with a radical change in policy and implementation.
So teachers, fight back the urge to be a humanitarian and help that emotionally deprived student; it is not your responsibility, you are there to teach, and if you take time out of class to help a single student, you are hurting yourself and the other students. So to come full circle with this argument, schools are being used for all the wrong things (see above), and because of all the responsibilites delegated to schools, (which are then handed down to the teachers) teachers simply will never have time to keep pace with developments in their respective fields and maintain a strong curriculum.
There are a lot of good books out there on this topic, and lots of great solutions, but because of the bureaucratic process, they'll never get through.
I think, although a short GPL-like tagline to add at the end of a block of text would suit most needs, there are a lot of instances where the copier(s) would simply remove the tagline and claim that you copied from them. This is the same case with images that are published online. To copyright or protect images from dissemination without copyright notice, companies use a variety of techniques. Many images include the copyright information or source url on the image itself, but depending on the complexity, anyone with experience and a nice image editor can remove this without any perceptible quality loss. So the latest attempts have been to include algorithms which are unique enough to identify but simple enough not to degrade the image, and encode copyright data within the image, a technique known as steganography. Digimarc offers just such image watermarking, though it leads to degradation in quality and a great deal of artifacting (the girl on the front page looks like she has skin cancer!). Anyway, to copyright text online, it would be a great deal more difficult, because, unlike images, the source is the same as the output (image source->decompressions->display; text source->display). To come full circle, a friend of mine wrote an excellent research paper detailing lexical steganography and his implementation of it. It's available here.
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...because it doesn't address the REAL problem. The real problem isn't accidents and inefficient driving. The real problem is that there are simply too many drivers on too few roads. If ITS is purported to solve other problems, like fuel inefficiencies due to poor driving patterns and accidents, then great, but ITS is advertised as the solution to congestion. NOT
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Read a new study out from Deloitte research titled: "Combating Gridlock: How Road User Pricing Can Ease Suggestion". I won't try to summarize it here, but if you have 10 minutes, read it:
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/research/0,2310,sid
Face it Richard, no one really cares about where you or I go, or what we did today, our lives just aren't that important. That placed on the fact that there is absolutly no law that currently prevents face recognition software from being used, either in public or private sectors, makes your little diatribe about it just an excercise in scaring people about the new laws.
You say that now because you probably live in a hole and don't do a whole lot that affects the world around you or impacts other people. Wait until you actually matter; until you are important. Then some people will start to give a damn about what you do and where you do.
We've been speaknig very generally about "encryption schemes" and "hackers", but it seems to me that this is much more simple than anyone has alluded to.
If anyone cares to try, I gurantee that you can easily capture the decoded stream after it has been passed to the DirectX Media runtime files. The nature of Windoze Media and video playback is such that it uses (exclusively) DirectX Media. If you don't believe me, install XingDVD player and delete some DXMedia runtime files and try playing an MPEG. EVEN INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE USES DIRECTX RUNTIME FILES FOR DECOMPRESSION. Therefore, it is plausible, and indeed, very likely, that you can simply capture the contents of a DMA segment in extended memory and stream it to the hard drive.
But you have to wonder, and I'm only speculating here, how many objections to this plan were heard by management from programmers within SightSound and MS before this was launched.
i think my favorite was schwab retirement commercial....i don't remember any other great ones...help me out guys?
Right now, Dr. Lederman is sitting in an office not more than 30 feet away, and I just said hello to him as I walked by. Small world? I would say tiny. the cat is dead and alive. that is why time travel is possible. ~vishesh
for those among us who are technologically superior, we shall rent Matrix on DVD. Then we shall skip to the "behind-the-scences" section. We shall then proceed to watch real footage of the development of those scenes from the footage. Then we shall laugh at the pitiful attempt by ABCNews to detail this fantastic method of cinematography. We shall. It's kinda like watching a monkey put out a housefire. Kinda.
I certainly agree with what most people have said so far, but I also believe that this is part of a greater problem with American schools. Everybody and their brothers know that American schools and students have been falling behind with respect to nearly every other nation in the world in math, science, and all other basic subjects. However, I think the problem lies in the fact that schools are no longer a place of merely learning, they have been forced to take the role of child care facilities, disciplinary institutions, self-esteem caretakers, and nearly everything else that a school simply shouldn't be used for.
In every other nation of the world, teachers are not burdened with having to discipline students, ensure that they are well-adjusted, be a mentor, a family counselor, a baby-sitter, and play so many other roles. In the US, parents simply send their kids off to school in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon, and essentially exculpate themselves from any responsibility of what happens in between.
Another major problem is that parents of disabled and/or mentally handicapped students have to stop whining about equal rights for students in the classroom. Sure, any handicapped student has the same right has every other student, but only to a certain extent. I certainly don't believe that a student with a handicap that places them at the learning level of a 3rd grader should ever be placed in classes like Number Theory, or Calc-based Physics. What about my rights? When the teacher has to stop teaching and go call the school nurse, all because some handicapped (i use the pc-term with reservations) student started peeing in their pants, or started taking off his shirt and jumping around, doesn't that encroach upon my rights? So another thing that teachers have to do is stop giving a damn about students emotional and psychological problems. Sure, if a student starts crying because they failed test, the teacher has a responsibility to help him to do well, but if a student starts crying because he doesn't think he fits in, tough luck; go talk to the counselor, and do not ever burden the teacher with it.
I really think that there are major problems with schools these days (I'm still referring to the pre-secondary and secondary school level) and the only way to fix them is with a radical change in policy and implementation.
So teachers, fight back the urge to be a humanitarian and help that emotionally deprived student; it is not your responsibility, you are there to teach, and if you take time out of class to help a single student, you are hurting yourself and the other students.
So to come full circle with this argument, schools are being used for all the wrong things (see above), and because of all the responsibilites delegated to schools, (which are then handed down to the teachers) teachers simply will never have time to keep pace with developments in their respective fields and maintain a strong curriculum.
There are a lot of good books out there on this topic, and lots of great solutions, but because of the bureaucratic process, they'll never get through.
I think, although a short GPL-like tagline to add at the end of a block of text would suit most needs, there are a lot of instances where the copier(s) would simply remove the tagline and claim that you copied from them. This is the same case with images that are published online. To copyright or protect images from dissemination without copyright notice, companies use a variety of techniques. Many images include the copyright information or source url on the image itself, but depending on the complexity, anyone with experience and a nice image editor can remove this without any perceptible quality loss. So the latest attempts have been to include algorithms which are unique enough to identify but simple enough not to degrade the image, and encode copyright data within the image, a technique known as steganography. Digimarc offers just such image watermarking, though it leads to degradation in quality and a great deal of artifacting (the girl on the front page looks like she has skin cancer!). Anyway, to copyright text online, it would be a great deal more difficult, because, unlike images, the source is the same as the output (image source->decompressions->display; text source->display). To come full circle, a friend of mine wrote an excellent research paper detailing lexical steganography and his implementation of it. It's available here.