a talented couple of musicians with ZERO marketing or advertising made something that is worth listening to
on youtube, autotune the news is kind of a big deal and has been for at least a couple of years. they have tons of "marketing" in that they have a pretty significant following.
The key differentiator of the future won't be our past actions, but our humble ability to both own up to them and demonstratively learn from them....
i think this is already in play. when the military did my background check for my security clearance, they wanted me to list past indiscretions. the goal wasn't to find a person with no past indiscretions, but to find a person who doesn't lie about having past indiscretions.
Maybe a celebrity name would be better. All of your result would be subsumed by the person who is actually of note.
or a combination of both, which is my case. i am fortunate enough to have a really common name which is identical to people who are somewhat famous, like an athlete or writer. i think that's the best way to stay under the radar.
i combine this with the personal equivalent of a shell corporation: a dedicated email alias and telephone number for the purposes of job seeking, that when combined with a boring criminal record have gotten me through every back ground check thus far.
2 out of 3 of this business are based on "free". He won't like the solution those guys have for his "problem". The third is good old Steve, saving the content industries.
apple is based on free too. the reason everyone loved the iPod was their vast collections of "stolen" music.
Re: Could still be dangerous if the steganography is detectable
If a regime decides to continue to allow Flickr despite this, it sounds like they could use Collage themselves to detect and decode the hidden material.
stego can be detected, all you have to do is look for extraneous data in an image file. the problem isn't that it's detectable, it's that services like flickr host billions of files that would have to be checked:
Once they know which pictures contain censored information they log any downloads of those images against the user's IP address and use that as information about who in their own population is reading it.
the thing with steganography is that you have to know where to look and then apply a method for extraction. if you have the target and extraction method ahead of time it's just a layer of inconvenience, like crypto. if you are an outsider sweeping for steganographic data, you are looking for a needle in a haystack which is potentially sitting in a stack of haystacks.
if you were to pair this tool with a bunch of compromised/colluding accounts, it would be very difficult to locate the party that is making these materials available. if these accounts are popular, it might also be difficult to locate the parties who are downloading these materials as well. a popular photographer may get thousands of hits per day on his/her photos, and if he/she has thousands of posted photos, it may not be apparent that a photo has been modified.
I would want the program to need the right key to even be able to detect that there is hidden material present before I used something like this.
stego isn't undetectable, nor is it unbreakable, but it does do a lot to obscure your activities. the point of stego is to put your payload out in the open. you are hiding your message in plain sight.
stego also pairs up nicely with crypto: you can embed encrypted data inside an file using steganography, so even if you can find the suspicious image(s), you may not necessarily get the payload.
Blizzard must shoulder the dual burden of maintaining and managing a healthy and fun set of servers to play on, as well as the cost of developing the game itself and its expansions (probably in the $100s of millions range for a game like World of Warcraft).
which is why wow players pay twice:
first, they pay for the game software/expansion - this should cover the cost of developing the game itself and it's expansions. if it doesn't then blizzard made a bad business decision.
then, they pay again via monthly subscription fees - this should cover the costs of maintaining and managing a healthy and fun set of servers to play on. if it doesn't then blizzard made a bad business decision.
Re: Just because it may be physically impossible to staunch it...
whatever. it can't be stopped so it won't be stopped. you could put two bullets in assange's head today and it will keep going like nothing ever happened.
the government knows this. this is why the conversation is all about what wikileaks did and how wrong it is, rather than the content of those documents.
the documents could be proof that the war in afghanistan is not being won and cannot be won. all this hand waving and finger pointing is a distraction from that fact.
In some cases it does reduce the number of digits you need to think about it for a brute force, which reduces the time it takes to get in dramatically.
that's the reason that number pads in general are terrible interfaces for password security: they are a small number of keys and they are usually not as sturdily made as computer keyboards.
it's pretty easy to guess the unlock code on a copier because those 4 keys see way more abuse than the others, so just look for the 3-4 keys that have been pressed more than the others and you have taken it from 5000+ key combinations to around 24.
Re: So they won't show a suspected murder's picture but have no issue with a suspected pedophile?
Can anyone explain to me why it is acceptable to post a guy's photo all over the news proclaiming him to be a suspected pedophile but don't publish a suspected murderer's photo?
suspected murderers are innocent until proven guilty. suspected pedophiles are pedophiles.
Either way the suspect's life is ruined even if proven innocent/not guilty.
in this case the defendant can afford good lawyers, so he is innocent until he cops a plea for a lesser charge. if you can't afford a good lawyer you are not guilty until they throw the book at you. it's the american way.
Is there a reason why the identity of both parties in a legal case aren't just held until after the outcome of the trial?
it comes down to the quality of your legal team. this guy can afford good representation, so he will get the fairest trial that money can buy, freedom of the press be damned.
What does feel time consuming is waiting a whole day to complete a back-and-forth with someone over text/email where a telephone conversation could have got it done in a fraction of the time.
while that is true, how many telephone conversations can you have at one time without asking someone to hold?
in that same vein, how often do you use a speakerphone/headset get things done/goof off while you sit on a conference call or on hold?
And how the flying hell would land based lines work with this new stuff, or even dumb phones?
they won't. that's why fewer and fewer people use landlines in their private lives. i expect a similar trend to slowly creep into our professional lives as well.
the landline phone is a very simple/inexpensive endpoint attached a very complex/expensive network. the internet is pretty much the exact opposite.
I mean telephones don't really push that much data above the signals for the phone number (since most land line phones are circuit switched, not packet switched) and for voice.
exactly. plain old telephones, and the 100 year old network that they run on, have been mostly (though not entirely) obsoleted by newer communications technologies.
developing nations don't bother with landline networks and are opting for mobile voice and data networks instead. this wasn't an accident.
The reason land lines are so reliable is that they do one thing only and they do that well: make and receive voice phone calls.
no, the landline network is so reliable because the telephone companies spared no expense in making it that way, including building it's own separate power grid that they controlled to keep it running in an emergency. that was great when the wired telephone was the only means of communication other than post. today there are multiple wireless and radio systems for voice and multiple methods for accessing the internet, so that kind of expensive reliability just isn't necessary anymore.
landlines are expensive, inefficient, and lack features compared to pretty much every other method of communication, especially those that run on top of the internet.
While this will work fine for people with smartphones + data, it would be useless for anything else. phones are nice for emergencies, or when the subject is too complicated for txting/im and too time sensitive for email.
you are looking at this from the wrong perspective. phones, or rather, real time, two-way audio communication, will always be around, but they will be relegated to what they are best suited for. the same is true for paper books, CD's, broadcast television, the desktop personal computer, and pretty much every other 20th century technological advance that is being displaced (though probably not replaced) by a cheaper, faster, more mobile, or more efficient digital alternative.
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Re: Hypocritical
the reason the safe harbor provisions are a pain to the RIAA is that ISP's actually have money, whereas individuals do not:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100713/17400810200.shtml
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Re: Re: This gave me a great idea
nah, the end of plausible deniability when it comes to rigging elections. that's the big concern.
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on youtube, autotune the news is kind of a big deal and has been for at least a couple of years. they have tons of "marketing" in that they have a pretty significant following.
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Re: Meaningless....
i think this is already in play. when the military did my background check for my security clearance, they wanted me to list past indiscretions. the goal wasn't to find a person with no past indiscretions, but to find a person who doesn't lie about having past indiscretions.
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Re: Re: Average Names
or a combination of both, which is my case. i am fortunate enough to have a really common name which is identical to people who are somewhat famous, like an athlete or writer. i think that's the best way to stay under the radar.
i combine this with the personal equivalent of a shell corporation: a dedicated email alias and telephone number for the purposes of job seeking, that when combined with a boring criminal record have gotten me through every back ground check thus far.
On the post: U2 Manager Blames 'Free' And Anonymous Internet Bloggers For Industry Troubles
anonymous coward is legion
here's a good place to start:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/BAWWW
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Waaaambulance
http ://encyclopediadramatica.com/Butthurt
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apple is based on free too. the reason everyone loved the iPod was their vast collections of "stolen" music.
On the post: New Program Makes It Even Easier To Hide & Access Information In Flickr Photos
Re: Could still be dangerous if the steganography is detectable
stego can be detected, all you have to do is look for extraneous data in an image file. the problem isn't that it's detectable, it's that services like flickr host billions of files that would have to be checked:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/
Once they know which pictures contain censored information they log any downloads of those images against the user's IP address and use that as information about who in their own population is reading it.
the thing with steganography is that you have to know where to look and then apply a method for extraction. if you have the target and extraction method ahead of time it's just a layer of inconvenience, like crypto. if you are an outsider sweeping for steganographic data, you are looking for a needle in a haystack which is potentially sitting in a stack of haystacks.
if you were to pair this tool with a bunch of compromised/colluding accounts, it would be very difficult to locate the party that is making these materials available. if these accounts are popular, it might also be difficult to locate the parties who are downloading these materials as well. a popular photographer may get thousands of hits per day on his/her photos, and if he/she has thousands of posted photos, it may not be apparent that a photo has been modified.
I would want the program to need the right key to even be able to detect that there is hidden material present before I used something like this.
stego isn't undetectable, nor is it unbreakable, but it does do a lot to obscure your activities. the point of stego is to put your payload out in the open. you are hiding your message in plain sight.
stego also pairs up nicely with crypto: you can embed encrypted data inside an file using steganography, so even if you can find the suspicious image(s), you may not necessarily get the payload.
On the post: New Program Makes It Even Easier To Hide & Access Information In Flickr Photos
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my guess is for automation purposes, like a one click "stego and post" process, which would be different from sharing site to sharing site.
On the post: Blizzard Awarded $88M Default Judgment Against Unauthorized World Of Warcraft Host
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which is why wow players pay twice:
first, they pay for the game software/expansion - this should cover the cost of developing the game itself and it's expansions. if it doesn't then blizzard made a bad business decision.
then, they pay again via monthly subscription fees - this should cover the costs of maintaining and managing a healthy and fun set of servers to play on. if it doesn't then blizzard made a bad business decision.
On the post: Clueless Commentators Think That It's Possible To Stop Wikileaks
Re: Just because it may be physically impossible to staunch it...
the government knows this. this is why the conversation is all about what wikileaks did and how wrong it is, rather than the content of those documents.
the documents could be proof that the war in afghanistan is not being won and cannot be won. all this hand waving and finger pointing is a distraction from that fact.
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ninja video got shut down. clearly ninjas are easier to kill than pirates:
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/41302
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Re: Re:
but all that really does is create a market for "teller" and "booker" services.
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i misread the town name as frauenkirschen, or something to do with women and cherries.
On the post: Research Claims Hackers Could Figure Out Your Smartphone Password Via Screen Smudges
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that's the reason that number pads in general are terrible interfaces for password security: they are a small number of keys and they are usually not as sturdily made as computer keyboards.
it's pretty easy to guess the unlock code on a copier because those 4 keys see way more abuse than the others, so just look for the 3-4 keys that have been pressed more than the others and you have taken it from 5000+ key combinations to around 24.
On the post: Research Claims Hackers Could Figure Out Your Smartphone Password Via Screen Smudges
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or you could wipe the screen clean periodically.
On the post: LA Times Barred From Publishing Photo Of Murder Suspect
Re: So they won't show a suspected murder's picture but have no issue with a suspected pedophile?
suspected murderers are innocent until proven guilty. suspected pedophiles are pedophiles.
Either way the suspect's life is ruined even if proven innocent/not guilty.
in this case the defendant can afford good lawyers, so he is innocent until he cops a plea for a lesser charge. if you can't afford a good lawyer you are not guilty until they throw the book at you. it's the american way.
Is there a reason why the identity of both parties in a legal case aren't just held until after the outcome of the trial?
it comes down to the quality of your legal team. this guy can afford good representation, so he will get the fairest trial that money can buy, freedom of the press be damned.
On the post: Phone Calls Are For Old People? Just Not Efficient Enough
Re: Crap, I'm old
while that is true, how many telephone conversations can you have at one time without asking someone to hold?
in that same vein, how often do you use a speakerphone/headset get things done/goof off while you sit on a conference call or on hold?
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they won't. that's why fewer and fewer people use landlines in their private lives. i expect a similar trend to slowly creep into our professional lives as well.
the landline phone is a very simple/inexpensive endpoint attached a very complex/expensive network. the internet is pretty much the exact opposite.
I mean telephones don't really push that much data above the signals for the phone number (since most land line phones are circuit switched, not packet switched) and for voice.
exactly. plain old telephones, and the 100 year old network that they run on, have been mostly (though not entirely) obsoleted by newer communications technologies.
developing nations don't bother with landline networks and are opting for mobile voice and data networks instead. this wasn't an accident.
The reason land lines are so reliable is that they do one thing only and they do that well: make and receive voice phone calls.
no, the landline network is so reliable because the telephone companies spared no expense in making it that way, including building it's own separate power grid that they controlled to keep it running in an emergency. that was great when the wired telephone was the only means of communication other than post. today there are multiple wireless and radio systems for voice and multiple methods for accessing the internet, so that kind of expensive reliability just isn't necessary anymore.
landlines are expensive, inefficient, and lack features compared to pretty much every other method of communication, especially those that run on top of the internet.
While this will work fine for people with smartphones + data, it would be useless for anything else. phones are nice for emergencies, or when the subject is too complicated for txting/im and too time sensitive for email.
you are looking at this from the wrong perspective. phones, or rather, real time, two-way audio communication, will always be around, but they will be relegated to what they are best suited for. the same is true for paper books, CD's, broadcast television, the desktop personal computer, and pretty much every other 20th century technological advance that is being displaced (though probably not replaced) by a cheaper, faster, more mobile, or more efficient digital alternative.
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