What about government maintained lists of sex offenders? Like people on that list for crimes under the umbrella of "sex crimes" don't get death threats pledging to kill that pedophile pervert, even though they might have just been caught peeing in a bush? What about people falsely accused that get their names smeared in public?
This smacks of the same kind of "we're your lords and masters who dare not be questioned" as this topic does, as does this one.
IANAL, so now would be a pre-emptively good time for me to ask someone to detail what exactly "entrapment" is and how undercover infiltrators relate to it.
Payola isn't supposed to happen. So clearly the next step is have all these "required" licensing fees paid to the RIAA members... unless, of course, you play what they want your station to play. Then they'll happily waive [some] of the fees.
If she's living on royalties then she got shafted by her financial advisor. She's got no investments? No diversification? No income but a piddling royalty check? It's not the radio station's fault.
Sure the radio stations are making money. If they didn't play Supremes they'd play something else. I remember a buddy who had a show on the campus radio station and often he'd get requests for songs they can't play and he'd tell the callers "yeah, sure, I'll play it, keep listening." I've never felt the need to call a corp radio station but it's probably the same way.
The stuff they play is just a commodity. At least the smaller costs of running internet radio stations had the semblance of caring about actual music and content.
For the behemoth MAFIAA every win, every law, every take in their favor is never independant and always a stepping stone to even greater reaches. Next thing you'll know the public will need to pay a fee simply to remember how great a particular song goes.
If denying Mary Wilson name-brand bon-bons in favor of the off-brand ones keeps them from taking advantage of ANOTHER stepping stone towards the continued bilking of the public at large, I'm all for it.
In other news, life expectancy is no longer 50, bloodletting is no longer a recommended medical treatment, and witches do, in fact, sink when tied to large stones and thrown into water.
Anyone get the impression that calling a gun used in an assassination 150 years ago impotent compared to today's weapons is just another salvo launched from the anti-gun crowd?
On the surface there's not much to the story, but look a little deeper.
They were releasing translated subtitle files to be used with videos. Presumably, since they needed translating, these were foreign discs. Possibly imported, sure, but the implication is likely that people need these subs to enjoy material not released by the media cartels for that region, and therefore instigates piracy: the favorite bogeyman.
Of course, since the big companies couldn't be bothered to translate it and release it in that region they're not losing any money at all and piracy wouldn't have any impact. UNLESS they want to keep the options open and release localized version later.
Now we're in "region coding" territory. A technique the industry uses for no technical reasons* other than to lock customers in to buying movies at the maximum prices possible.
These weren't people making knockoff translations and selling them in the face of Polish-localized content. This was simply providing a service so people could expand their horizons a little.
I suppose Babelfish is illegal in Poland, too. Ha-rumph.
* one could argue that the content could be mastered for differences in NTSC/PAL timings and color spaces, but I'd say this if the content player can output in varied formats, the technical limitation is gone.
"We aren't exactly sending in the B-52s to airdrop loads of McMuffins . . . and twinkies onto the Noble Primitive Peoples who are Honoring the Sacred Traditions of Their Ancestors."
Chemical weapons are against the Geneva Conventions, aren't they?
Nintendo will never change the Zelda formula. They tested the waters with Windwaker and the fanbois all screamed bloody murder. Not over some major game mechanic change or dramatic change in roles of Link/Ganon/Zelda. No, they lit the torches and sharpened the pitchforks because of the ART DIRECTION.
It's silly, of course. Yet, N is always redefining Mario. Donkey Kong was one type of game. Mario Bros. is another type of game. Super Mario Bros. 1 - 3 + World were essentially the same thing (not counting rebranded and polished Doki Doki Panic). Yoshi's Island. Super Mario 64. And I'm completely ignoring the games that are just Mario themed for simply for Mario franchise's sake: Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, so many more.
Maybe if Zelda fans would be less drooly they could let Nintendo explore new directions and, in the end, they'd get a great Zelda game again. And a great Zelda game is already a LONG time coming.
I gotta wonder: is pressing Shift and 2 at the same time really easier than pressing a and then t? Just trying to read and my eyes keep focusing in on that @.
Me being a jerk aside, I think you just helped out my professional life AND my personal life.:)
It's still not going to be "one" architecture. CPUs are still going to have their own specialized instructions and extra sets (Intels SSE83 and AMD's 3DNOWFORREALTHISTIME).
Also, not necessarily at you, but if any Windows developer does so in C or C++, you have been using the new headers with 64-bit compatibility warnings, haven't you?
Don't know about you but my address bar shows it.slashdot.org, not politics.slashdot.org. Therefore, the politics tag does not imply that a given story is in the politics section.
For starters, there's always hiring someone else to screen your emails for you. I wouldn't be surprised if there was already a service that you could join today and get your emails pre-screened.
Spam filters are going to have to get to be as good as an informed human being before they can stop all spam regardless of what tricks they use.
I just hope AI gets to that point before it goes all sentient... you know: "DESTROY ALL SPAM" ...computing... "SPAM COMES FROM HUMANS" ...computing... "DESTROY ALL HUMANS"
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The linked article mentions some SEC investigations to some stocks that went up in value as a result of that sort of spam. SOMEONE's gotta be making money out there. I mean, all the advances making spam harder to track has to be funded SOMEHOW.
TFA shows exactly how the images try to fool OCR software.
Defenses against OCR: * Throw in pixel noise * Alter colors (I don't really understand this one other than insufficient contrast) * Alter geometry enough to throw recognition algorithms off * Give each letter a different font/position/geometry so adaptive OCR doesn't have enough samples to adapt. * Split up images into layers of multiple images such that no single image has, by itself, any text
It's a very interesting article. We're going to have to make big strides in AI to the point where computers will be checking email and evaluating it as spam similar to how we do it as humans.
This probably has less to do with Microsoft's guide sucking as it has to do with Comcast already having an on-screen guide software suite. For something so critical, one would think that Comcast would have been 100% behind the home-grown option.
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They're can't create false court documents.
What about government maintained lists of sex offenders? Like people on that list for crimes under the umbrella of "sex crimes" don't get death threats pledging to kill that pedophile pervert, even though they might have just been caught peeing in a bush? What about people falsely accused that get their names smeared in public?
This smacks of the same kind of "we're your lords and masters who dare not be questioned" as this topic does, as does this one.
IANAL, so now would be a pre-emptively good time for me to ask someone to detail what exactly "entrapment" is and how undercover infiltrators relate to it.
I think there was a joke about "women parts" embedded in there somewhere.
(anyone else have visions of the Sarlacc?? *shudder*)
So if WiFi can give you cancer, what can a bunch of loose network cables strewn on the floor give you?
It's not the flight I'm afraid of, it's the notebook's landing that's the dealbreaker.
Payola isn't supposed to happen. So clearly the next step is have all these "required" licensing fees paid to the RIAA members... unless, of course, you play what they want your station to play. Then they'll happily waive [some] of the fees.
Ahhh, Organized Crime at its finest.
If she's living on royalties then she got shafted by her financial advisor. She's got no investments? No diversification? No income but a piddling royalty check? It's not the radio station's fault.
Sure the radio stations are making money. If they didn't play Supremes they'd play something else. I remember a buddy who had a show on the campus radio station and often he'd get requests for songs they can't play and he'd tell the callers "yeah, sure, I'll play it, keep listening." I've never felt the need to call a corp radio station but it's probably the same way.
The stuff they play is just a commodity. At least the smaller costs of running internet radio stations had the semblance of caring about actual music and content.
For the behemoth MAFIAA every win, every law, every take in their favor is never independant and always a stepping stone to even greater reaches. Next thing you'll know the public will need to pay a fee simply to remember how great a particular song goes.
If denying Mary Wilson name-brand bon-bons in favor of the off-brand ones keeps them from taking advantage of ANOTHER stepping stone towards the continued bilking of the public at large, I'm all for it.
"Now, doughnut shops on the other hand..."
It's all the downsides to transfat. Everyone knows the finest doughnuts make ample use of shortening.
Where is our military technology now that can't make a tasty doughnut that won't take 3 weeks off my life each?
I'd be more impressed if modern science managed to bring Lincoln back from the dead. ;)
In other news, life expectancy is no longer 50, bloodletting is no longer a recommended medical treatment, and witches do, in fact, sink when tied to large stones and thrown into water.
Anyone get the impression that calling a gun used in an assassination 150 years ago impotent compared to today's weapons is just another salvo launched from the anti-gun crowd?
I like Aegisub.
On the surface there's not much to the story, but look a little deeper.
They were releasing translated subtitle files to be used with videos. Presumably, since they needed translating, these were foreign discs. Possibly imported, sure, but the implication is likely that people need these subs to enjoy material not released by the media cartels for that region, and therefore instigates piracy: the favorite bogeyman.
Of course, since the big companies couldn't be bothered to translate it and release it in that region they're not losing any money at all and piracy wouldn't have any impact. UNLESS they want to keep the options open and release localized version later.
Now we're in "region coding" territory. A technique the industry uses for no technical reasons* other than to lock customers in to buying movies at the maximum prices possible.
These weren't people making knockoff translations and selling them in the face of Polish-localized content. This was simply providing a service so people could expand their horizons a little.
I suppose Babelfish is illegal in Poland, too. Ha-rumph.
* one could argue that the content could be mastered for differences in NTSC/PAL timings and color spaces, but I'd say this if the content player can output in varied formats, the technical limitation is gone.
"We aren't exactly sending in the B-52s to airdrop loads of McMuffins . . . and twinkies onto the Noble Primitive Peoples who are Honoring the Sacred Traditions of Their Ancestors."
Chemical weapons are against the Geneva Conventions, aren't they?
Not according to all those fan comics....
And with others still, Link gets all sorts of nookie, male or female.
In my mind I still haven't decided which ones are sadder: the furries or the fanbois.
Nintendo will never change the Zelda formula. They tested the waters with Windwaker and the fanbois all screamed bloody murder. Not over some major game mechanic change or dramatic change in roles of Link/Ganon/Zelda. No, they lit the torches and sharpened the pitchforks because of the ART DIRECTION.
It's silly, of course. Yet, N is always redefining Mario. Donkey Kong was one type of game. Mario Bros. is another type of game. Super Mario Bros. 1 - 3 + World were essentially the same thing (not counting rebranded and polished Doki Doki Panic). Yoshi's Island. Super Mario 64. And I'm completely ignoring the games that are just Mario themed for simply for Mario franchise's sake: Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, so many more.
Maybe if Zelda fans would be less drooly they could let Nintendo explore new directions and, in the end, they'd get a great Zelda game again. And a great Zelda game is already a LONG time coming.
I gotta wonder: is pressing Shift and 2 at the same time really easier than pressing a and then t? Just trying to read and my eyes keep focusing in on that @.
:)
Me being a jerk aside, I think you just helped out my professional life AND my personal life.
It's still not going to be "one" architecture. CPUs are still going to have their own specialized instructions and extra sets (Intels SSE83 and AMD's 3DNOWFORREALTHISTIME).
Also, not necessarily at you, but if any Windows developer does so in C or C++, you have been using the new headers with 64-bit compatibility warnings, haven't you?
Don't know about you but my address bar shows it.slashdot.org, not politics.slashdot.org. Therefore, the politics tag does not imply that a given story is in the politics section.
For starters, there's always hiring someone else to screen your emails for you. I wouldn't be surprised if there was already a service that you could join today and get your emails pre-screened.
Spam filters are going to have to get to be as good as an informed human being before they can stop all spam regardless of what tricks they use.
I just hope AI gets to that point before it goes all sentient... you know:
"DESTROY ALL SPAM"
...computing...
"SPAM COMES FROM HUMANS"
...computing...
"DESTROY ALL HUMANS"
The linked article mentions some SEC investigations to some stocks that went up in value as a result of that sort of spam. SOMEONE's gotta be making money out there. I mean, all the advances making spam harder to track has to be funded SOMEHOW.
TFA shows exactly how the images try to fool OCR software.
Defenses against OCR:
* Throw in pixel noise
* Alter colors (I don't really understand this one other than insufficient contrast)
* Alter geometry enough to throw recognition algorithms off
* Give each letter a different font/position/geometry so adaptive OCR doesn't have enough samples to adapt.
* Split up images into layers of multiple images such that no single image has, by itself, any text
It's a very interesting article. We're going to have to make big strides in AI to the point where computers will be checking email and evaluating it as spam similar to how we do it as humans.
"Fastest-selling OS in history"
That wouldn't have anything to do with having more computers in the world NOW versus, you know, any other point in history?
In other news, the world's human population is the highest it's ever been in history.
There's always Windiz Update.
Ah, yes. Thank you. Caffeine half-life strikes again. :)
Which article of the constitution, or, rather, any constitution, gives patents authority?
This probably has less to do with Microsoft's guide sucking as it has to do with Comcast already having an on-screen guide software suite. For something so critical, one would think that Comcast would have been 100% behind the home-grown option.