From the FTC site: (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/)
"Once the Commission gets Congressional approval for funding, it will begin implementing the registry. Consumers will be able to begin signing up for the national "do not call" registry about four months later. About three months after that, the FTC will begin enforcing the registry, and consumers who have signed up will start receiving fewer calls. Consumers will be able to register for free online or by calling a toll-free number. The Web address and phone number for registration will be posted on this site when they are determined."
The camera is trusted. The camera is given a public key to use. When a photo is taken, the camera embeds its signature/time stamp/other info into the picture. Using any ordinary method, this would damage the picture and be easily edited. However, knowing that pictures are inherently compressible, you can compress part of the picture, add your data to it, sign everything with the public key, insert it back into the picture, and send out a recoverable, signed picture. The unsigned picture would never make it out of the camera. This way, only the person with the private key could access the original picture.
The government could still tamper with the pictures, but at least its harder for someone on the (crime?) scene to do so... In result, this is essentially as secure as normal photos (where optical illusions/distortion is already possible).
It does _not_ require infinite lossless compression. In an application like this, image quality is of utmost importance; therefore they didn't have to worry about trying to store data in already lossy formats such as jpe
From reading the paper (college access to IEEE publications sure is nice), the researchers outline two forms of reversible data embedding.
Type I simply embeds the data into the spectrum of the image and uses modulo addition as necessary to prevent overflow. Unfortunately, this causes "salt-and-pepper artifacts" because this sometimes affects the most significant bits in a pixel's representation.
Type II uses the traditional method of overwriting the least significant bits or high-frequency coefficients in the image (depending on image encoding).
What this paper does is describe a method that employs Type II encoding and saves the overwritten bits by compressing them and inserting into the embedded data stream. Unlike simple Type II encodings such as always using the lowest two bits, this paper varies the number of bits which are used in each byte. This value is determined according to their compressibility and other parameters in the image. By doing this, the paper obtains a more efficient tradeoff between storage and distortion.
Consider for a moment how the world would be if copyrights did not exist. The only direct result is that copies can freely be made.
By whom? you might ask... by the big *media houses* - by the very people you are complaining about right now.
Without copyright laws, an artist has no way to prosecute these people for stealing the fruit of their labor. An artist is an artist; not a well-entrenched CD/DVD stamping factory.
It is only through copyright laws that we can hope that the artist will receive some benefit from the reproduction of their works. Just because the current _implementation_ is broken doesn't imply that the _idea_ is unsound...
Unless you believe that physical goods (e.g. wheat, potatos, silicon chips) which actually take less effort *per item* to produce should also be freely "available"...
In patent law, holding a patent allows one to prevent infringers from importing their product into the US.
I think its similar for copyright law also.
i.e. If you live in the "Axis of Evil", infringe all you want; just don't try exporting into the US sphere of control.
Re:"Benefits" of killing the Alpha and PA-RISC...
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I'm no expert, but one of my professors (who is) mentioned several things about the Alpha processor.
Basically, they designed the Alpha to be an expensive, no-holds-barred chipset. For the technology they were working with (x-micron; I forgot x), they packed way more transistors and such onto the chips than was advisable.
In exchange for the increased performance, they had to settle for lower yield (more chips thrown away) and other difficulties. Because of this the chips were extremely expensive as compared to commodity PC chips. This restricted Alpha chips to a smaller market which resulted in smaller profits and made it extremely difficult to fund further development...
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Is it possible that a Wiley's employee may have read this, found it funny, and decided to "test the waters"? This almost seems like a parody of a parody...
Also, did anyone check to make sure the e-mail headers weren't forged?
is no more meaningful than a 3-letter TLD. Both are meaningless in today's Internet. As are the www prefixes on so many of today's webpages. As are the '.' notation...
Saying a 2-letter _ASCII_ (e.g. Latin characters) country code in any less US-specific than.com is a straw man. If other countries don't like the cruft which comes with a.com address, then they can freely not take a.com address...
What we really need is a change to a global character set (a la Unicode) which will allow native characters in the URL... Have you looked at ASCII approximations of Korean Hangul or Japanese Kanji lately?
At the same time, it would probably be wise to have an international group redesign the registration system entirely. (making it more automated, bypassing pointless "registrars", moving copyright battles into normal courts, dumping the TLD concept entirely,...)
More specifically, what is the purpose of the ".com", ".net", or ".org"? These are 4 nearly useless characters in every URL...
Are they meant to describe the type of group involved? They don't. Corporations own.org's and organizations grab.com's to keep from getting sued (suid;) in the future.
Are they meant to make web indexing easier? They don't. They are horribly inefficient and contrived. Indexing would be easier based on the first letter of the url than on this contrived system.
Assuming latin alphanumerics, this gives 36 hashtable slots per character (46,656 for the first 3 characters); this compares quite favorably to the handful of slots in the current system. Instead of having a few central servers for each huge ".com", a normally indexed system could easily load balance and integrate new servers...
_____ The ideas in this post are hereby public domain.
Hi, over at Project Borg, we've just started working on an open source bipedal robot.
By open source, we mean that the design will be free, although the parts will not.;-)
Anyway, anyone interested in robotics is welcome to come visit us. By doing this as a group project, everyone can work on their own specialty... Programmers on the control or user interface, electricians on the electronics, machine workers on the hardware,... </plug>
There are also a lot of other sites on the Web. Recommended starting points:
Etude books, solos,... There were just some pieces which my teachers decided (for one reason or another) that I didn't need to get.
The requirement of buying your own music got stronger as you got older and matured. People won't necessarily expect a 7th grader to shell out the cash they'll expect from a college student...
And there were always things which the professors would pass around student to student. Little things which nobody would use much. Like the "black-magic" reed books which only costed about $5.
One thing I've noticed is are the major differences between people in music school and the general public towards music distribution.
I've had several music teachers who told me to copy a piece of music and work with it--in order to preserve the original. When we finished the piece, they told me to destroy the copy.
You might say, "why?" That's exactly my point--people outside just don't seem to understand.
People who work hard just to play music understand the effort spent by those who have created it. They realize that there's a necessary tradition of respecting those who have contributed, and buying through legitimate sources. if I wanted a copy of something, I was told (not by a single professor or student teacher, and not at a single school--3 separate institutions to be exact) to (gasp!) BUY IT.
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That's what rot13 is for...
> Thus, to reach the largest audiences, web sites will still serve animated advertisement banners as GIF instead of MNG.
;)
So... you're arguing for dropping GIF support, right?
Brilliant! even more effective than Junkbuster.
In fact, its a "Silicon Image Sil 3112A Controller with 2 Ports" which can do Raid 0 or Raid 1
The "Pot of Gold" was great...
so much Latin slap-stick to choose from...
good memories...
From the FTC site: (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/)
"Once the Commission gets Congressional approval for funding, it will begin implementing the registry. Consumers will be able to begin signing up for the national "do not call" registry about four months later. About three months after that, the FTC will begin enforcing the registry, and consumers who have signed up will start receiving fewer calls. Consumers will be able to register for free online or by calling a toll-free number. The Web address and phone number for registration will be posted on this site when they are determined."
I think you are essentially correct.
The camera is trusted. The camera is given a public key to use. When a photo is taken, the camera embeds its signature/time stamp/other info into the picture. Using any ordinary method, this would damage the picture and be easily edited. However, knowing that pictures are inherently compressible, you can compress part of the picture, add your data to it, sign everything with the public key, insert it back into the picture, and send out a recoverable, signed picture. The unsigned picture would never make it out of the camera. This way, only the person with the private key could access the original picture.
The government could still tamper with the pictures, but at least its harder for someone on the (crime?) scene to do so... In result, this is essentially as secure as normal photos (where optical illusions/distortion is already possible).
It does _not_ require infinite lossless compression. In an application like this, image quality is of utmost importance; therefore they didn't have to worry about trying to store data in already lossy formats such as jpe
From reading the paper (college access to IEEE publications sure is nice), the researchers outline two forms of reversible data embedding.
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Type I simply embeds the data into the spectrum of the image and uses modulo addition as necessary to prevent overflow. Unfortunately, this causes "salt-and-pepper artifacts" because this sometimes affects the most significant bits in a pixel's representation.
Type II uses the traditional method of overwriting the least significant bits or high-frequency coefficients in the image (depending on image encoding).
What this paper does is describe a method that employs Type II encoding and saves the overwritten bits by compressing them and inserting into the embedded data stream. Unlike simple Type II encodings such as always using the lowest two bits, this paper varies the number of bits which are used in each byte. This value is determined according to their compressibility and other parameters in the image. By doing this, the paper obtains a more efficient tradeoff between storage and distortion.
The journal article is "Reversible data hiding" in IEEE Internation Conference on Image Processing, 2002, volume 2, pages 157-160 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=
Consider for a moment how the world would be if copyrights did not exist. The only direct result is that copies can freely be made.
By whom? you might ask... by the big *media houses* - by the very people you are complaining about right now.
Without copyright laws, an artist has no way to prosecute these people for stealing the fruit of their labor. An artist is an artist; not a well-entrenched CD/DVD stamping factory.
It is only through copyright laws that we can hope that the artist will receive some benefit from the reproduction of their works. Just because the current _implementation_ is broken doesn't imply that the _idea_ is unsound...
Unless you believe that physical goods (e.g. wheat, potatos, silicon chips) which actually take less effort *per item* to produce should also be freely "available"...
In patent law, holding a patent allows one to prevent infringers from importing their product into the US.
I think its similar for copyright law also.
i.e. If you live in the "Axis of Evil", infringe all you want; just don't try exporting into the US sphere of control.
I'm no expert, but one of my professors (who is) mentioned several things about the Alpha processor.
Basically, they designed the Alpha to be an expensive, no-holds-barred chipset. For the technology they were working with (x-micron; I forgot x), they packed way more transistors and such onto the chips than was advisable.
In exchange for the increased performance, they had to settle for lower yield (more chips thrown away) and other difficulties. Because of this the chips were extremely expensive as compared to commodity PC chips. This restricted Alpha chips to a smaller market which resulted in smaller profits and made it extremely difficult to fund further development...
Is it possible that a Wiley's employee may have read this, found it funny, and decided to "test the waters"?
This almost seems like a parody of a parody...
Also, did anyone check to make sure the e-mail headers weren't forged?
"they bug out when opening many apps"?!?
Windows likes to BSOD, but if your processor is causing issues, then you either need a bigger heat sink or have bad RAM.
Processor reliability is independent of number of applications (assuming overheating doesn't occur).
Maybe an unstable OS is what you meant to blame?
They keep talking about scripts, but nowhere did they mention what language the script should be in... /bin/sh, PERL, JavaScript, Scheme??
Personally, I like the recursive Scheme idea best...
It reminds me of a rather absent-minded professor I once knew...
I agree with TJ on this point.
The Federal Reserve system (and other systems where joined instead of regulating industry) has caused many economic disasters...
However, your real point stands; basing points on famous (or dead) quotes is logically unsound.
Koreans don't seem to like Unicode either. Most e-mails I receive are encoded as "euc-kr"...
related MLP:
- broad overview (Netscape FAQ)
- better introduction (*nix Unicode FAQ)
- Unicode homepage
Unfortunately, Unix Unicode implementations appear to use UTF-8 (see here) which is rather inefficient for non-ASCII encodings...
This problem appears to be bigger than the internet; it is deeply rooted in the C library itself...
is no more meaningful than a 3-letter TLD. Both are meaningless in today's Internet. As are the www prefixes on so many of today's webpages. As are the '.' notation...
.com is a straw man. If other countries don't like the cruft which comes with a .com address, then they can freely not take a .com address...
...)
Saying a 2-letter _ASCII_ (e.g. Latin characters) country code in any less US-specific than
What we really need is a change to a global character set (a la Unicode) which will allow native characters in the URL... Have you looked at ASCII approximations of Korean Hangul or Japanese Kanji lately?
At the same time, it would probably be wise to have an international group redesign the registration system entirely. (making it more automated, bypassing pointless "registrars", moving copyright battles into normal courts, dumping the TLD concept entirely,
What is the purpose of domains?
.org's and organizations grab .com's to keep from getting sued (suid ;) in the future.
More specifically, what is the purpose of the ".com", ".net", or ".org"? These are 4 nearly useless characters in every URL...
Are they meant to describe the type of group involved? They don't. Corporations own
Are they meant to make web indexing easier? They don't. They are horribly inefficient and contrived. Indexing would be easier based on the first letter of the url than on this contrived system.
Assuming latin alphanumerics, this gives 36 hashtable slots per character (46,656 for the first 3 characters); this compares quite favorably to the handful of slots in the current system. Instead of having a few central servers for each huge ".com", a normally indexed system could easily load balance and integrate new servers...
_____
The ideas in this post are hereby public domain.
Sorry about that last post; the key sequence is -Z
Sure it does; -Z sends emacs to the background in a terminal; this keysequence could simply return focus to the parent app in a GUI setting...
Simply putting quotes around something is not sufficient.
To avoid plagarism, one must also give proper credit to the author by clearly displaying his name.
Wasn't MSNBC one of the media outlets who joined CNN in proclaiming Gore as our new President a few months ago?
By open source, we mean that the design will be free, although the parts will not.
Anyway, anyone interested in robotics is welcome to come visit us. By doing this as a group project, everyone can work on their own specialty... Programmers on the control or user interface, electricians on the electronics, machine workers on the hardware,
</plug>
There are also a lot of other sites on the Web. Recommended starting points:
- general search for robotics
- comp.robotics.misc (exact path?)
- legged-robots@egroups.com
- places like Mondo-Tronics
- feel free to ask me or any of these groups more specific questions
Hope that helps,Nuntius
Fuel cells are plenty efficient--the real problem is cost effectiveness. Platinum-based catalysts don't come cheap these days. ;-)
I bought over 80% of the music I used.
...
Etude books, solos,
There were just some pieces which my teachers decided (for one reason or another) that I didn't need to get.
The requirement of buying your own music got stronger as you got older and matured. People won't necessarily expect a 7th grader to shell out the cash they'll expect from a college student...
And there were always things which the professors would pass around student to student. Little things which nobody would use much. Like the "black-magic" reed books which only costed about $5.
Agreed.
One thing I've noticed is are the major differences between people in music school and the general public towards music distribution.
I've had several music teachers who told me to copy a piece of music and work with it--in order to preserve the original. When we finished the piece, they told me to destroy the copy.
You might say, "why?" That's exactly my point--people outside just don't seem to understand.
People who work hard just to play music understand the effort spent by those who have created it. They realize that there's a necessary tradition of respecting those who have contributed, and buying through legitimate sources. if I wanted a copy of something, I was told (not by a single professor or student teacher, and not at a single school--3 separate institutions to be exact) to (gasp!) BUY IT.