The only difference is that at a concert, you are surrounded by a large crowd of very loud, and smelly teenagers.
not that I expect this to matter to anyone, but the songs at concerts are played by people with musical instruments. Who invest actual creative time and effort into making the music.
Sure, here. Buy ours. It's cryptographically tethered to the cable service and it comes for free with the cable when you commit to 2 years of service. OH WAIT WHAT'S THAT YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE VOLUME? LET ME SIGN YOU UP FOR THE PREMIUM REMOTE CONTROL PLAN WHICH IS A STEAL AT ONLY 5 CENTS PER BUTTONPRESS.
That's the double-edged sword of watermarking: either the signature can be changed with no perceptible loss of quality, or the signature itself must entail a perceptible loss of quality.
If you get desperate, there are data recovery services you can hire (at pretty ridiculous expense I'm sure) that can retrieve data from busted hard drives and floppies. Given that they have to do things like mount naked platters and floppies and read them as-is, it seems likely that their gear can accomodate a range of different sizes and sector layouts and whatnot.
Burning it to CD results in a slightly lower quality yet and significantly lower than a purchased CD.
That phase doesn't actually entail any degradation. Burning a 44KHz/16bit compressed music file (like an mp3 or m4a) will result in a CD that sounds exactly, sample-for-sample, like the compressed file.
Re-ripping it from that CD to another compressed format, though, is likely to degrade things further.
The problem is that all these options require photographs, which mean each new CAPTCHA requires some human-work to produce. If we're going to prevent spammers from just exhaustively cataloging the right answers, we need an automatable, procedural way to generate new ones.
I've wanted to gripe about this for ages, but here it finally seems on-topic:
Slashdot's audio CAPTCHA is a joke.
The computer voice SPELLS the word for you letter-by-letter. A bot wouldn't even have to use heuristics-based speech recognition, just searching for 26 waves (or FFT signatures) would do the trick.
That'd make sense. What threw me for a loop was "to make sure it wouldn't grow on me".
I certainly find that some music initially leaves me cold and then gets better and better. but I prefer to keep the music around when that happens - I like liking music!;)
"Solar sail" would be a ridiculous name for a device which tries to harness "solar wind" for propulsion. Try and come up with something a little more descriptive, alright?
I haven't seen many numbers on market penetration for the Xbox service, but I've heard that the pricing and video selection were poor enough to make them flop regardless. Is that anything like true?
This might be the service that finally puts net neutrality into perspective. Previously all the arguments about bandwidth availability and the ethics of throttling have conflated legitimate use with piracy. But the crux of the argument has been mostly hypothetical up until about now; A legal, widely deployed IP video-on-demand service will put the TV content providers into a very clear conflict of interests; it will be interesting to see how they plan on treating this traffic.
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2^5.
You know what you call a Guitar Hero player without a girlfriend?
...Actually, uh, you just call him a Guitar Hero player.
not that I expect this to matter to anyone, but the songs at concerts are played by people with musical instruments. Who invest actual creative time and effort into making the music.
Well, sometimes.
Like I said, volume control costs extra. ;)
Sure, here. Buy ours. It's cryptographically tethered to the cable service and it comes for free with the cable when you commit to 2 years of service. OH WAIT WHAT'S THAT YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE VOLUME? LET ME SIGN YOU UP FOR THE PREMIUM REMOTE CONTROL PLAN WHICH IS A STEAL AT ONLY 5 CENTS PER BUTTONPRESS.
That's the double-edged sword of watermarking: either the signature can be changed with no perceptible loss of quality, or the signature itself must entail a perceptible loss of quality.
If you get desperate, there are data recovery services you can hire (at pretty ridiculous expense I'm sure) that can retrieve data from busted hard drives and floppies. Given that they have to do things like mount naked platters and floppies and read them as-is, it seems likely that their gear can accomodate a range of different sizes and sector layouts and whatnot.
I imagined a 3 1/2 inch floppy with "internet" scribbled on the 3M label in Sharpie. And that made me smile a little. Up with GGP.
That phase doesn't actually entail any degradation. Burning a 44KHz/16bit compressed music file (like an mp3 or m4a) will result in a CD that sounds exactly, sample-for-sample, like the compressed file.
Re-ripping it from that CD to another compressed format, though, is likely to degrade things further.
The problem is that all these options require photographs, which mean each new CAPTCHA requires some human-work to produce. If we're going to prevent spammers from just exhaustively cataloging the right answers, we need an automatable, procedural way to generate new ones.
I've wanted to gripe about this for ages, but here it finally seems on-topic:
Slashdot's audio CAPTCHA is a joke.
The computer voice SPELLS the word for you letter-by-letter. A bot wouldn't even have to use heuristics-based speech recognition, just searching for 26 waves (or FFT signatures) would do the trick.
I can't believe that damn movie hasn't resulted in a huge cash settlement by now.
That'd make sense. What threw me for a loop was "to make sure it wouldn't grow on me".
;)
I certainly find that some music initially leaves me cold and then gets better and better. but I prefer to keep the music around when that happens - I like liking music!
Remember also that mp3 bitrates were lower back then.
What a bizarre thing to do.
It's a "test" of your faith, lol!
Ironic commentary, betraying an almost Foucaultian weariness of the tedium and the hubris of our discourse. AC, I salute you.
we've taken bacteria and made other bacteria which don't die in the presence of antibiotics. Without trying, even!
I assume you'll be consistent, and consider your faith to be equally 'untested' until you've managed to create a planet in seven days.
Quantum dingleberries.
We nerds love it.
"Solar sail" would be a ridiculous name for a device which tries to harness "solar wind" for propulsion. Try and come up with something a little more descriptive, alright?
It's better than bad; it's good!
I haven't seen many numbers on market penetration for the Xbox service, but I've heard that the pricing and video selection were poor enough to make them flop regardless. Is that anything like true?
This might be the service that finally puts net neutrality into perspective. Previously all the arguments about bandwidth availability and the ethics of throttling have conflated legitimate use with piracy. But the crux of the argument has been mostly hypothetical up until about now; A legal, widely deployed IP video-on-demand service will put the TV content providers into a very clear conflict of interests; it will be interesting to see how they plan on treating this traffic.